Jérôme THARAUD - Les Saints Patrons des Métiers de France Aubanel Père Avignon

by Jérôme Tharaud

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THARAUD, Jérôme and Jean, et al. Les Saints Patrons des Métiers de France (The Patron Saints of the Trades of France). Avignon: Maison Aubanel Père, Imprimeur de N. S. P. le Pape. A collective volume with texts by Jérôme Tharaud, of the Académie Française, and Jean Tharaud, as well as Léon-Paul Fargue, of the Académie Mallarmé. The other contributors are André Thérive, Alexandre Arnoux, André Demaison, Maurice Garçon, René Bizet, Jean Masson, Pierre Dominique, André Billy, Kléber Haedens, Raymond Dumay, Luc Durtain, Jean Follain, Marius Richard and Roger Lannes. This anthology was published in Avignon by the Maison Aubanel Père, printer to the Pope. It studies the patron saints of France's traditional trades and crafts, combining history, hagiography and literature. Each chapter recounts the life of a saint and its link with the trades under that saint's protection. Together the chapters give a broad view of French religious and craft heritage. The book will interest collectors of French literature, religious folklore and the history of guilds and trades. The text is in French. Condition: good. Please refer to the photos for further details of condition. Ships carefully packed with tracking from France. U.S. customs: shipped and declared as printed books (HS 4901), a duty-free category under U.S. tariff rules (informational materials exemption). (H11)

• Publisher: Maison Aubanel Père
• Condition: Good

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