Auction 87 - Jewish and Israeli Art, History and Culture

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"Fors L'Honneur" – Trials of the Perpetrators of the Algiers Putsch – 1963 – Dedication to Uzi Narkiss, Hand-Signed by the French Generals Salan, Jouhaud, Zeller and Challe

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Fors L'Honneur [For Honour], foreword by the right-wing extremist Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour, photographs and captions by Yves Le Deliou and Marie-Therese Dupuy. Paris: S.E.R.P., 1963. French. Limited edition of 1000 copies.
An album documenting in text and photographs the trials of the dissidents who violently opposed Algerian independence – anti-Gaullistes, participants in the failed Generals' putsch in Algeria (1961), and members of the underground right-wing organization OAS (Organisation armée secrete; "Secret Armed Organization, ") which among its other violent operations, attempted to assassinate the president of the republic, Charles de Gaulle.
Autograph dedication (in French) to general Uzi Narkiss (1925-1997), on front endpaper, with several signatures. Narkiss was the Israeli military attaché to Paris, from the late 1950's to 1962; he was given the album as souvenir of his days in the "Institut des hautes études de Défense nationale" [Institute of Advanced Studies in National Defence] and the visit to the headquarters of the French 27th Mountain Infantry Brigade, in Grande Kabylie, Algeria.
Among those who signed the dedication are the four generals who led the Generals' putsch, in an attempt to prevent Algerian independence, and were convicted for treason: Raoul Salan (1899-1984), Edmond Jouhaud (1905-1995), André Zeller (1898-1979), and Maurice Challe (1905-1979).

Dedication dated 20.12.63 (or 65'). Signed in Tulle, where the prison in which the generals were interned was located.

[48] ff., 29.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Hardcover, with original dust jacket. Minor marginal tears to jacket. 


Enclosed: roughly 12 newspaper clippings (most from the French newspaper "Le Monde"; late 1950s and early 1960s), dealing with the war in Algeria, the Generals' putsch and the trials of the of those responsible for it. Handwritten note on one clipping (Hebrew; handwritten by Narkiss?).




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