Propos d’un intoxiqué
One of the first 120 copies on vergé de Hollande, signed by Thérèse Boissière (no. 52).
Jules Boissière, a writer, félibre and journalist from Languedoc, became a colonial administrator in Tonkin from 1886. His Propos d’un intoxiqué was published in Hanoi — under the pseudonym Khou-Mi, gardien de pagode — in 1890, as a slim pamphlet: the text brought him renown among the fashionable writers of the late nineteenth century. Having become a distinguished administrator, he married Thérèse Roumanille, the publisher’s daughter, in Avignon on April 17, 1891, and subsequently published, again in Hanoi, Le Bonze Kou-Su, then in 1895 Fumeurs d’opium, before his premature death in 1897, probably as a result of excessive opium use.
Boissière’s unfinished novel appears here for the first time, gathered, arranged and prepared by Thérèse Boissière.
This posthumous edition adds two previously unpublished pieces, Terre de fièvre and the Cahier de route; the whole appears under an attractive illustrated wrapper by Géo Dorival.
Wrapper remounted, without the spine.