NAPOLEON. - FAURE (Elijah). Manuscript entitled... - Lot 46 - Osenat

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NAPOLEON. - FAURE (Elijah). Manuscript entitled... - Lot 46 - Osenat
NAPOLEON. - FAURE (Elijah). Manuscript entitled "Napoleon". About 135 ff. in-4 and in-8, placed under a strong vellum jacket in a brick percaline wallet with black title piece on the back. A complete manuscript that presents many variations of styles with the printed version published in 1921 by Georges Crès. Napoleon was constantly reissued in 1924, 1964, 1983 and 2019. Signed autograph: "To Pierre Faure, my dear nephew, who, I hope, will never confuse Bonapartism with Napoleon... "Saturday, December 7, 2019 / Osenat / 35 Napoleon, Famous historical essay crossed by an apocalyptic lyrical breath, which is the hallmark of Élie Faure's style: doctor marked by the Great War, historian and art critic sensitive to the sublime, libertarian militant disrespectful of bourgeois conventions, he had bathed in his youth in a milieu of protestant pastors linked to the Reclus family which included several anarchist thinkers. "From a moral point of view, it is not defensible. Even he is incomprehensible. Indeed, he violates the law, he kills, he sows revenge and death. But he also dictates the law, he stalks and crushes crime, he establishes order everywhere. He's a murderer. He's a vigilante. In the row, he would have deserved the rope. At the top he dictates the rule and distributes with a firm hand the reward and punishment. It's a two-sided monster. Maybe we all do. But in any case like God. Almost no one has seen it. Not his critics, not his apologists. It is in the name of morality that all attack it, or defend it. It's easy for the first ones. It's not so easy for others. But it's that morality is narrower than life. And less complex. And not dragging like her, in her tragic context, the sublime antinomies whose continued opposition makes the hero's substance and which forbid the hero to be more and less than a man. From the moral point of view, he is indeed the Antichrist, just as the disciples of Christ were the Antichrist. And yet, in the depths of reality, he is cl
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