Engraved cover of the program for a "Représentation de Gala au bénéfice de l'Union des Colonies Etrangères en France, l'Orphelinat des Armées et la Fraternelle des Artistes," with a laurel and palm border, an Adrian helmet, sword and flag, engraved by Stern, Paris, signed in ink by the French poet and dramatist with a large paraph: "Jean Richepin / de l'Académie française." Paris, c. 1915–1918. Toned, light chipping to the right edge. 9.75 x 6.25 inches; 25 x 16 cm.
Richepin, author of La Chanson des gueux and of libretti for Massenet and Cui, was elected to the Académie française in 1908 and wrote much patriotic verse during the First World War.
Engraved cover of the program for a "Représentation de Gala au bénéfice de l'Union des Colonies Etrangères en France, l'Orphelinat des Armées et la Fraternelle des Artistes," with a laurel and palm border, an Adrian helmet, sword and flag, engraved by Stern, Paris, signed in ink by the French poet and dramatist with a large paraph: "Jean Richepin / de l'Académie française." Paris, c. 1915–1918. Toned, light chipping to the right edge. 9.75 x 6.25 inches; 25 x 16 cm.
Richepin, author of La Chanson des gueux and of libretti for Massenet and Cui, was elected to the Académie française in 1908 and wrote much patriotic verse during the First World War.