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Bonaparte Napoleon - Supper at Beaucaire
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translated into English for the first time by Somerset De Chair. Printed and Published by the Golden Cockerel Press, 1945, limited edition number 2 of 100, signed by the translator, frontis portrait, 38pp, plus colophon, gilt fore-edges, bound in full honeycomb patterned vellum with bee emblem, mild soiling to front board, This is a presentation copy, inscribed and signed by the translator at the foot of the introduction "For Anne Zinkeisen, with many thanks for exhibiting our work on the line in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Napoleon Bonaparte, p. p. Somerset de Chair 1959. A manifesto written by Napoleon during his residence in Marseille, taking the form of a conversation between a soldier and his companions who discuss revolutionary topics in an inn.
