Historical Portraits and Literary Figures

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PILON (EDMOND) Amori Morti - Belle Amore. A Poet of Marie Stuart: M. de Maisonfleur - Maucrois and the Marchioness de Brosses - In the Land of Louis de La Vallière - Estelle of Florian: Madame Gonthier - A Figure from Alsace: the Baroness of Oberkirch - Ondine Valmore. Paris, Plon, n.d. (1925), octavo, half leather binding, VII-242 pp. Original wrapper preserved. First edition on common paper. PILON (EDMOND) Old Portraits, Young Faces: A Character of La Bruyère: the Bird Lover; The Meeting of Monsieur Pascal; The Peasant Lady de Sévigné; A Lieutenant of Turenne; Jacques de Castelnau; Monsieur de Chamilly; Célénie Leblond; Around Montesquieu; The Florist of Romanticism: Madame de Chastenay. Paris, Librairie Plon, 1929, octavo, half leather binding, VII-250 pp.