{"title":"Charles de Gaulle","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"memoires-de-guerre","title":"Mémoires de Guerre","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDE GAULLE (Charles). \u003cem\u003eMémoires de Guerre\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eParis: Plon,\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e1954-1959.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3 volumes, octavo (227 × 145 mm), T1 - (4) ff., 680 pp., (4) ff., T2 - (4) ff., 712 pp., (2) ff., T3 - (4) ff., 653 pp., (3) ff.\u0026nbsp;Original wrappers.\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eUncut and unopened.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"417\" data-end=\"468\"\u003eExceptional set, inscribed by Charles de Gaulle to the son of the first head of the French secret services\u003c\/strong\u003e, and \u003cstrong data-start=\"474\" data-end=\"512\"\u003eone of 425 copies on pur fil paper\u003c\/strong\u003e (second paper issue).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMagnificent presentation inscription: \"A Thierry Dewavrin \/ avec le voeu qu'il \/ sauve la France aussi bien \/ que l'a fait son père. \/ C. de Gaulle \/ 10 Novembre 1954.\" (\u003cem\u003eTo Thierry Dewavrin \/ with the wish that he \/ saves France as good as \/ did his father \/ C. de Gaulle \/ November 10, 1954\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished between 1954 and 1959, the \u003cem data-start=\"742\" data-end=\"762\"\u003eMémoires de guerre\u003c\/em\u003e constitute \u003cstrong data-start=\"774\" data-end=\"828\"\u003ethe foundational text of de Gaulle’s autobiography\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong data-start=\"833\" data-end=\"900\"\u003eone of the major monuments of 20th-century political literature\u003c\/strong\u003e. Through their scope, narrative construction and symbolic ambition, these volumes definitively establish the Gaullist interpretation of the Second World War, from the Appeal of 18 June to the Liberation, and inscribe the figure of the General within a consciously shaped historical dimension.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"1195\" data-end=\"1268\"\u003eThis copy has outstanding historical resonance through its recipient.\u003c\/strong\u003e André Dewavrin, the father of the dedicatee, known under the nom de guerre \u003cstrong data-start=\"1344\" data-end=\"1361\"\u003eColonel Passy\u003c\/strong\u003e (1911–1998), was \u003cstrong data-start=\"1379\" data-end=\"1451\"\u003ethe founder and first head of the Free French secret services (BCRA)\u003c\/strong\u003e, created in London at de Gaulle’s initiative. A key figure of the Resistance and direct interlocutor of the Allies, Passy played a decisive role in structuring intelligence and clandestine networks throughout the war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA few minor flaws to the covers, with some cracking at the bottom edge of the front cover of the first volume, and a slightly creased signature page; otherwise superb copies with exceptional historical and symbolic provenance and provenance.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Librairie Alexis Noqué","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56907265933637,"sku":"0800","price":7800.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0793\/8611\/6421\/files\/IMG_5520_jpg.png?v=1768812886"},{"product_id":"photographie-signee-charles-de-gaulle","title":"Signed photograph, Charles de Gaulle","description":"\u003cp\u003e(GAULLE (de), Charles) COSTER, Howard (1885–1959), original photograph, undated [c. 1940], signed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFramed (320 x 260 mm).\u003cbr\u003e\nA period gelatin silver print, enriched with his signature in black ink in the lower margin. The back of the frame indicates \"photo dédicacée par le Général De Gaulle au R.P. Thery\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe portrait was taken in early August 1940 and was published in The Illustrated London News of 17 August 1940. It was then widely circulated by the British and the French, notably in the leaflets parachuted over occupied France from 1942.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReverend Father Thery (1891–1959), or Gabriel Théry, was a theologian, historian and religious author of the Order of Preachers. He was also a professor at the Institut Catholique de Paris.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Librairie Alexis Noqué","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58296075419973,"sku":"0919","price":1250.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0793\/8611\/6421\/files\/2-IMG_9234.jpg?v=1781651363"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.librairie-alexisnoque.fr\/en\/collections\/auteur-charles-de-gaulle.oembed","provider":"Librairie Alexis Noqué","version":"1.0","type":"link"}