PAUL ET VIRGINIE

by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, E. Othon Friesz, Gérard Angiolini

$200 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix · No longer available

Paris : Editions de la Maison Française , 1947 . Limited edition of this illustrated 18th-century French tragedy with abolitionist themes – with a numbered print by Friesz loosely laid in. Near fine in original slipcase. Item #45298 The story of two French colonist children who grow up side-by-side in Mauritius and fall in love, only to be torn apart by class expectations. PAUL ET VIRGINIE is punctuated by

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