DorgelÈs - Montmartre Walks. Vialetay, 1960. Illustrated By Dignimont.

DORGELÈS (Roland) - Montmartre walks. Paris, Vialetay, 1960; folio, 127 pp., paperback in sheets under a folded cover and in a slipcase. Numbered copy on white vellum. Illustrations including some in color by André Dignimont. Original edition. Typography by Jean and Raymond Crès, model by Henri Jonquières, drawings by Dignimont reproduced by hand by Antoinette Vivant on backgrounds by Louis Duval, the ornamentations are engraved on wood by Henri Renaud. Roland Lecavelé, known as Roland Dorgelès, born June 15, 1885 in Amiens and died March 18, 1973 in Paris, was a French journalist and writer, member of the Académie Goncourt from 1929 to 1973. He is a famous and quite unclassifiable writer. He began his career in Montmartre. During the First World War, he engaged in combat when he was discharged for health reasons, he even became an airplane pilot and obtained the Croix de Guerre. Then he was a journalist for the Canard Enchainé. His greatest literary success remains “Les Croix de bois”. Very good state.