Sensations de Paris. Le Quartier latin ces messieurs – ces…

12mo (183 × 117 mm), pp. 35, [1]; illustrations in the text; uncut in the original illustrated wrappers, some wear, spine defective.

First edition: a rare work by the young Barrès (1862–1923), the same year Huit jours chez M. Renan, ‘imaginary conversations on an impertinently ironic note, won him both praise and blame, and before long he was in the first rank of authors’ (Oxford Companion to French Literature). Barrès’ look at the Left Bank, and the men and women found there, is peppered with little drawings, all anonymous.