Foucault Mme (5 results)

Condition: Gut. 1st. ed. gr. 8°. 343 S. Hardcover, marmorierter Einband, geringe Gebr.spuren, S. 275-278 lose, gutes Ex. Sprache: Französisch, avec IV Figures en Taille Douce. -------- Thérèse-Adèle Foucault (1803-1831). Born into an upper-middle-class family in 1803, Thérèse-Adèle Husson was a French writer in the post-Revolutionary period. At the age of nine months, she became blind as a result of smallpox. She wrote more than a dozen children's novels. She also wrote an autobiography, dictated to two different writers, which was sent to the director of the Quinze-Vingts Hospital in 1825. This autobiography was later discovered by Zina Weygand in the hospital's archives, and with the assistance of Catherine Kudlick, Weygand translated the work and published it as Reflections: The Life and Writings of a Young Blind Woman in Post-Revolutionary France. The book is known for being the first French-language book by a blind person about blindness. Husson died in 1831 following severe burns received when her apartment caught on fire.…

Couverture rigide. Condition: Bon. Paris . Belin-le-Prieur . 1835 . Un volume in-12 en reliure époque plein cuir raciné , de 215 pages ornées de gravures hors'texte .

Couverture rigide. Condition: bon. RO40104189: Non daté. In-16. Relié. Etat d'usage, Plats abîmés, Dos abîmé, Mouillures. 361 pages. Gravures en noir et blanc en frontispice et en page de titre. Dos manquant. Bords des plats frottés. Annotations d'époque au dos du 1er plat et en page de garde. Frontispice et page de titre se détachant légèrement. Quelques légères taches dans le texte. Dernière page abîmée, sans altération de la lecture, et détachée. . . . Classification Dewey : 840.08-XIX ème siècle. …

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Ex-bib. Bords et coins émoussés, pages froissées, taches brunes à cause de l'eau. French.

Condition: Used: Acceptable. Reliure usée, intérieur correct malgré quelques taches.