Title: Alphonse Daudet L’immortel Mœurs parisiennes
Description: <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">8vo. pp. 382. Contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards, original green printed wrappers bound in, uncut. First edition, no. 25 of fifty copies on papier de Chine, initialed by the publisher Lemerre, from a limitation of 270 special copies, in addition to the general printing in cream-colored wrappers (see G. Vicaire, Manuel de l’amateur de livres du XIXe siècle, 1801–1893. Paris, 1897, III, p. 60).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">A novel based on the Lucas affair, the titular figure being the forger’s victim Michel Chasles, one of the forty ‘immortals’ of the Académie française.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_4656318" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>