Lizerolles - Dufrénoy - Devriès - In The Intimacy Of Illustrious Figures 1845-1950. 1951.

LIZEROLLES - DUFRÉNOY - DEVRIÈS (Pierre-Marie, Jules-Édouard, Maurice) - In the Intimacy of Illustrious Persons 1845-1950 (Photo Album). Paris, MD, 1951; 12 oblong quarto fascicles, 144 pp., 12 fascicles under embossed paper cover and closed with a burgundy red ribbon. Reproduction from the 1950s of a photography collection started in 1845 by Pierre-Marie Lizerolles, later completed by Jules-Édouard Dufrénoy, then by Maurice Devriès. The MD publishing house specialized in facsimiles, when you turn the pages you have a real impression of handwriting with photographs pasted by the owner of the fascicles... This facsimile shows the most important figures of a period of 100 years of French history, starting with Daguerre and Niepce, to continue with Louis-Philippe, Guizot, Joinville, Balzac, Sand, Belioz, Proudhon, Michelet, Sainte-Beuve, Hugo, Napoleon III, Eugénie, Lesseps, Verlaine, etc. A very complete copy in good condition.