FRENCH LANGUAGE: Contes du Lit-Clos - Théodore Botrel - Récits & légendes bretonnes, 1912

WATERCOLOR COVER AND 20 LITHOGRAPHS BY D.-O. WIDHOPFF
Followed by Chansons à dire, illustrated with 10 NON-TEXT LITHOGRAPHS BY ABEL TRUCHET
Part 1: Contes du Lit-Clos - 24 Breton stories and legends in verse: L'anesse de Jesus, L'ankou, Le berceau sur la mer, Les briseurs de Calvaires, Celui qui frappe, Le clocher de Treguier, La complainte des ames, etc
Part 2: 44 Songs to say: Les avoines grises, Au parson, La bonne souffrance, Bonheur manqué, Le bouton d'or, Bretons tetus, La brume, La chanson du reveil, etc.
Publisher: Georges Ondet, Paris. MCM-MCMXII - IIe mille Printed in 1912 in the Paul Dupont workshops in Clichy. Paperback - Cover illustrated in black and white colorized. Frontispiece, black and white photographic reproduction of Botrel in Breton costume. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Under silk paper. Text in perfect condition - Good condition (see detailed information)

SUMMARY
Opus of poetry songs subtitled “récits et légendes bretonnes en vers” Théodore Botrel, born in 1868 in Dinan, in the Pays gallo (non-Breton), who died in Pont-Aven in 1925, essentially leaves a work of songs which enjoyed unparalleled glory in the first half of the 20th century. Forgotten and vilified, in the second half of the century, it nevertheless deserves, a hundred years later, to be rediscovered and - once placed in its historical context - appreciated at its true value.