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Collected Works of Paul Valery, Volume 11: Occasions
By (Author) Paul Valry
Translated by Jackson Mathews
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
841.912
Hardback
278
Width 127mm, Height 203mm
397g
This collection of Valery's occasional pieces--speeches, interviews, articles--shows him very much as the public figure, the first in demand when an "occasion" needed a prominent person. Included are his speech before the French Academy on his reception into that body; his address welcoming Marshal Petain to membership in the French Academy; a witt