[Postcar by tghe publisher Librairie PLON promoting Charles Silvestre's PRODIGE DU COEUR]

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In French. 14 x 9 cm. postcard with portrait of Charles Silvestre (Gaston Armand Silvestre)(2 February 1889 Tulle - 21 March 1948 Bellac), a French regionally inspired novel writer and an extreme right proponent who yearned for pre French Revolution days of the monarchy and Catholicism as the state religion. He was a close friend of Charles Maurras, the infamous Petain supporter and Nazi collaborationist and one of the founders of the Action française that sided with the antisemites in the Alfred Dreyfus affair. After WWII Maurras who should have been executed together with countless other collaborationists in France and elsewhere, received a life sentence, but was released from prison after 5 years. Silvestre received the literary Prix Femina in 1926 with for his novel, advertised here, Prodige du c?ur. Plon is a French book publishing company, founded in 1852 by Henri Plon and his two brothers. The Plon family were Walloons coming from Nivelles, Belgium. One of their ancestors is probably the Danish typographer Jehan Plon who lived at the end of the 16th century. Founded: 1852, Paris, France. Headquarters: Paris, France Founder: Henri Plon. Parent company: Editis.

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• Titre: [Postcar by tghe publisher Librairie PLON promoting Charles Silvestre's PRODIGE DU COEUR]
• Langue: français
• Reliure: No Binding
• État de l'article: Good
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