Charles de Foucauld et la fraternite.

Paris: Aux Editions du Seuil, [1959]. Paperback. 12mo. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. 191pp. Frontispiece, numerous illustrations, inside wrappers maps. Near fine. Faintest of edgewear; single inked note ("I'll try to find this") on page 190. Item #48674

Tight and nice softbound copy of this heavily pictorial biography, entirely in French, in the "Maitres Spiritueels" series. Biography of the French cavalry officer turned African explorer/geographer and finally Catholic priest, living among the Tuareg tribe of Algeria as a hermit until being assassinated -- a martyr on the fast track to canonization.

Price: $20.00

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