Description
DAUDET Léon
LA CHAMBRE NATIONALE DU 16 NOVEMBRE. Portraits et tendances
Librairie Nationale,
Paris 1923 – Broché, illustrated cover by Jehan Sennep, 18.5 cm ×
12 cm, 199 pp including 15 drawings by Sennep, one of the copies on pure silk vellum, here no. 240. The author, who
had been elected on 16 November 1919 under a royalist label to the
Chamber, who "attended and participated in every session, from start to
finish" – "except for three weeks of influenza" – and who declares himself
a "convinced reactionary" and "anti‑democratic" (Introduction) reviews, at the
end of the legislature, the parties and factions, the notable personalities of the Assembly, the parliamentary game proper,
the tribune and its art, as well as the goals and general tendencies
that emerge. "Third Republic" very beautiful state of freshness, untrimmed










