Vers Luisants - Jean Albert Boucher EO 1952 1/25 With Envoy and Full Autograph

• Astonishing, intimate bibliophilic object, inscribed, and extra-illustrated with numerous manuscripts.

        With Touching Autograph Inscription to Jacques Girard "My Only Friend" 

(neuropsychiatrist and scholar from Auvergne born in Lezoux (1926-2016), was president 

of the Academy of Sciences, Belles-Lettres and Arts of Clermont-Ferrand, author of 

"Famous or Remarkable Women and Men of Auvergne, Bourbonnais 

and Velay: Biographical and Historical Dictionary")

• Jean Albert Boucher (1927-1995) : Vers Luisants Pensées D'un Adolescent (Glow-worms: Thoughts of an Adolescent)

Collection written at age 15 in Apchat during the war years, 

Paul-Flat prize from the Académie Française in 1952 (youngest laureate):

"these thoughts of a fifteen-year-old adolescent, expressed in a concise style,

are an analysis of the state of mind of a young Catholic in the current era 

and denote an astonishing maturity"

• Containing a rare typed letter on Académie Française letterhead Signed by Georges Duhamel Addressed to Jacques Girard to inquire after the health of Jean Albert Boucher and his mother on June 22, 1944

Two autograph letters (4 and 5 pages)

A typescript (2p) transcribing the press note written by the author 

for the press conference in Caen on January 16, 1953 organized by Jean Villette

And 4 press clippings mentioning the author

An invitation card to a book signing

The publisher's promotional notice regarding the work with praise

• In his letters, the author mentions Georges Duhamel (his first supporter with whom he corresponded during the war),

who advised him to throw his reader mail into the fire!, his admiration for 

Charles Maurras, Jean de La Varende, and his publisher Edouard Aubanel 

(the example of provincial virtues so as not to become just a serial number), 

his interview with Jacques Isorni regarding Pétain,

the ordeal of having to speak about himself in front of journalists, he who chose

the wrong century, as well as having to leave his region to visit Paris, etc..

• An obituary notice was published by the Academy of Sciences, Arts and Belles-Lettres of Caen (of which he was a member) (Volume XXXIV 1996):

Born in Tilly-sur-Seulles which he never left, of Norman and Auvergnat origins,

Jean Albert Boucher was a discreet man, a man of culture, a protector and friend

of the arts, and above all a man of faith, working for the revival of the 12th-century

chapel by giving numerous heritage lectures there.

He used to say: "So many people think they are acting because they are agitated. The Hermit, on the contrary,

can be a discreet and effective engine of complementarity"

 Condition 

Very beautiful work with minimal signs of use

• wear to the caps of the slipcase
• small snag on the back cover

• Spine slightly sunned

• Fresh interior 
• A tear on the edge of the press typescript