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1938 Vintage Signed Count Joseph De Pesquidoux Noted French Writer Postcard

$ 10.03

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Type: Printed (Lithograph)
  • Country: France
  • All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: France
  • Postage Condition: Posted
  • Condition: Postcard quality fair to good with some soiling. Handwritten portion and signature highly legible.
  • City/Region: France
  • Modified Item: No
  • Era: 1938

    Description

    What a historic find!
    This French
    "Chateau de Pesquidoux"
    postcard was
    written and signed
    by
    "Joseph
    de Pesquidoux"
    known as the
    "Count of Pesquidoux"
    a noted and historic French writer and aristocrat.  The
    significance
    of this historic artifact is the postcard is of the
    Count-owned Chateau, written in his own hand and signed by him!
    (I wish I knew what he was writing!)
    (Note: The photo of Joseph De Pesquidox shown in image #3 is NOT part of this lot.)
    According
    to research, Count Joseph de Pesquidoux (1869 - 1946) wrote the following books:
    Premiers verses
    (1896)
    Salome
    (1898)
    Ramesses
    (1900)
    Le sang fatal
    (1903)
    Chez nous - Travaux et jeux rustiques
    (1920)
    Sur la glèbe
    (1921)
    Le Livre de raison
    (3 volumes, 1925–1932)
    Caumont, Duke of La Force
    (1931)
    The Church and the Earth
    (1935)
    The Herd
    (1936)
    Gascony
    (1939)
    Un Petit Univers
    (1940)
    Sol de France
    (1942)
    And:
    In 1927 he received the Grand Prize for Literature from the Académie Française, of which he was elected member in Chair 34 in 1936, and was elected maintainer of the Académie des Jeux floraux in 1938. He was president of the Société d ' archeology of the Gers from 1937 to 1945.
    Under the Occupation, he was a member of the National Council set up by Vichy.
    He was an officer of the Legion of Honor and had the 1914-1918 War Cross.
    P
    ostcard quality is fair to good with some soiling. Handwritten portion and signature is highly legible.
    U.S. Priority postage and insurance is .00.