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From the court of miracles - Maurice Vloberg - Superb Binding With Sending 1928 n°1

Name: From the court of miracles - Maurice Vloberg - Superb Binding With Sending 1928 n°1
Brand: Librairie L'Ostal Arverne
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Beautiful bibliophilic work with a superb dedication from the author to Paul Funck-Brentano,
a famous surgeon and professor of gynecology, member of the Academy of Medicine and the Academy of Surgery.

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From the Court of Miracles to the Gallows of Montfaucon: a superb historical,
if not ethnographic or sociological, work whose author, Maurice Vloberg (1885-1967),
describes its origin and subject matter, inspired by Victor Hugo, as follows:

A study of the Parisian principality of Argot (slang), its fiefdom, its troops, its discipline,

its mastery, its style, its collusion and its work of splitting proceeds with thieves;

finally, the end of its exploits and its charades at the gallows.

(Poverty and Determinism, themes still relevant today)

The Court of Miracles was, under the Ancien Régime, a set of lawless
areas consisting of Parisian neighborhoods, so named because the supposed
infirmities of the beggars who had made them their place of
ordinary residence would disappear at nightfall, "as if by a miracle."

Coming from the countryside to seek work in vain, or the destitute from the cities,

the most disadvantaged swelled the ranks of the Courts of Miracles in the 17th century,

under the reigns of Louis XIII and Louis XIV.

Jean Naert Publishing

1928

With a moving autograph dedication to Dr. Funck-Brentano (Paul)

mentioning his daughter.

Format 24*28.5cm, IV-244p

unique print run of 300 copies on tinted Rives vellum

Here, No. 1 printed especially for the author

enriched at the end with the layout of the colophon

Embellished with 50 full-page print reproductions