BOOK - by RENE BENJAMIN * - Arthème Fayard ed 1927 - 159 pag - Lot 752

BOOK - by RENE BENJAMIN * - Arthème Fayard ed 1927 - 159 pages - 23,5 x 18,5 cm... GASPARD. Enriched with 21 engravings, original woods by RENEFER *. War novel by the author, wounded at Verdun in 1914 and evacuated to Saumur Hospital, then to Bretonneau Hospital in Tours. He had to stay there for several months, where he wrote his memories and impressions of his wartime period in a series of articles that he turned into a novel; a novel that won the 1915 PRIX GONCOURT. * René Benjamin: a prolific and important author of the 1920 / 1945 period. Writer, journalist and lecturer (1400 conferences) throughout France and its colonies. Awarded the Académicien Goncourt in 1938, friend of Maurras and Léon Daudet. Born in Paris on March 20, 1885, died in TOURS on October 4, 1948, at the Clinique SAINT GATIEN. * RENEFER : pseudonym of Jean Constant Raymond Fontanet, painter - illustrator and engraver. Born in Betheny on June 2, 1879, died in Andrésy on October 14, 1957.