Belle Fresque Napoléonienne', in the form of a broadside poster in a wallet, inscribed by de Régie to Jules Dechamps, together with twenty cuttings of newspaper and magazine articles by de Régie.

Author: 
René de Vivie de Régie, 'Rédacteur à la "Revue des Études Napoléoniennes" [Napoleon Bonaparte; Professor Jules Dechamps (1888-1968), Queen Mary College]
Publication details: 
The poster dated 1925; the cuttings circa 1928-29.
£250.00
SKU: 7538

The poster is printed on one side of a piece of paper approximately 110 x 75 cm. Good, on lightly-aged paper. With its green printed wallet (21 x 28.5 cm), lightly worn and creased. Wallet covered in text, including the words 'NAPOLÉON FLORILÈGE' in large type. A curious piece of Napoleonic hagiography, with the text, consisting of a large number of unconnected effusions on his greatness ('Astre humain. Dieu terrestre'), in a variety of types and point sizes, arranged in six columns. Headed 'A SA GLORIFICATION', and with the word 'LUI' in large type above an illustration (18 x 25.5 cm) by Marcy of Napoleon's tomb at Les Invalides. Smaller illustrations of the Arc de Triomphe, of three crowns and a medal, with a fragment of the score of Beethoven's 'Eroica'. Long inscription in the same fervid tone, filling a panel 18.5 x 28 cm, by 'René de Vivie de Régie de l'Academie du Centre', to 'Jules Dechamps, Docteur en Philosophie et Lettres, Maîre de Conférences à l'East London College'. The twenty cuttings, in good condition on aged paper, are of articles written in the same vein, with titles such as 'Napoleon Multiple', 'Napoleon, Romain', 'Napoleon Grand Europeen'. One of the cuttings dated 1928 and another 1929. Another cutting ('Napoléon était-il Corse?') headed by a signed note by de Regie: 'Napoléon est au-dessus de ses origines ethniques. Il les dépasse. [signed] René de Vivie de Régie.' The only copy on COPAC at the Bodleian.