L'HISTOIRE D'ALSACE: Racontée aux Petits Enfants

by Oncle Hansi, Huen, Jean-Jacques Waltz, Victor Huen

$400 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix · No longer available

First edition

Paris: H. Floury, 1916. First edition of this French large-format picture book history of the contested Alsace region, then under German occupation – published at a time when even speaking French in the region was against the law. Very good plus. Item #14018 From the cover illustration of l'Oncle Hansi reading to children dressed in traditional Alsatian garb, to the final passage detailing the Germans' violent

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