M. Maurice Druon - Louis Pasteur Vallery-Radot 1968 SIGNED Ltd Ed. H. C.108/160

Description: M. Maurice Druon - Louis Pasteur Vallery-Radot 1968 SIGNED Ltd Ed. H. C.108/160 POB#57140 TITLE: Discours de réception M. Maurice Druon, a L'Académie Française; Réponse de M. Pasteur Vallery-Radot AUTHOR: M. Maurice Druon; Louis Pasteur Vallery-Radot PUBLISHER: Paris: Librarie Plon : Librairie académique Perrin DATE: 1968 EDITION: Limited edition, stamped #108, of a series of 160 examples. AUTOGRAPH: Additionally signed in presentation by the author. DESCRIPTION: 98 pages 20 cm. CONDITION NOTES: FINE without exception. Untrimmed. Very clean. Inscribed by the author on the front free fly page. BINDING: Full paper in french wraps, untrimmed edges..Maurice Druon's original speech to page 58. Pasteur's response from 59 to 98. ,Louis Pasteur Vallery-Radot (3 May 1886, Paris - 9 October 1970, Paris) was a French physician, biographer of his grandfather Louis Pasteur and editor of Pasteur's complete works. In 1936 he was elected as a member of the Académie Nationale de Médecine. .Maurice Druon (23 April 1918 – 14 April 2009) was a French novelist and a member of the Académie française, of which he served as "Perpetual Secretary" (chairman) between 1985 and 1999. Druon was elected to the 30th seat of the Académie française on 8 December 1966,[8] succeeding Georges Duhamel. He was elected as "Perpetual Secretary" in 1985, but chose to resign the office in late 1999 due to old age; he successfully pushed for Hélène Carrère d'Encausse to succeed him, the first woman to hold the post, and was styled Honorary Perpetual Secretary after 2000. On the death of Henri Troyat on 2 March 2007, he became the Dean of the Académie, its longest-serving member. While his scholarly writing earned him a seat at the Académie, Druon is best known for a series of seven historical novels published in the 1950s under the title Les Rois maudits (The Accursed Kings). The novels were adapted for French television in 1972, gaining a wider audience through overseas sales, and again in 2005, starring Jeanne Moreau. Fantasy writer George R. R. Martin stated that the novels had been an inspiration for his fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire, and called Druon "France's best historical novelist since Alexandre Dumas, père" Listing and template services provided by inkFrog

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