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Pierre-Alexandre Le Camus
French politician (1774–1824)
Pierre-Alexandre Le Camus, Count of Fürstenstein (17 November 1774 – 30 November 1824) was a French politician.
Biography
[edit]Pierre-Alexandre Le Camus, a Creole from Martinique, met Jérôme Bonaparte around 1803 when the latter was forced to stay on the island because he was suffering from yellow fever.[1]
Le Camus came to Europe with Jérôme in 1805 and remained his closest confidant. When Jérôme was made King of the newly created Kingdom of Westphalia for him by his brother in 1807, Le Camus became First Chamberlain, First Secretary and Grand Master of the Wardrobe. On 24 December 1807, Jérôme conferred on his favourite the hereditary great fief of the Diede zum Fürstenstein family with the castle and lordship of Fürstenstein (near Eschwege) and the lordship of Immichenhain as hereditary manorial fief, as well as an annual pension of 40,000 francs, and raised him to the rank of Count of Fürstenstein. L
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Paul kant (Jacket design) (illustrator). First American Edtion. First impression of the first American edition, published by Alfred A. Knopf as a Borzoi book. Translated from the French into English by Justin O'Brien. Portrait photograph of the author by Karsh on the back panel of the dustwrapper. ***Very good in light-blue paper over red cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to spine. The gilt has faded and oxidised somewhat over time. Top and tail of spine just slightly creased. Boards clean and unmarked, just slightly faded at the top edges. There is also a patch of fading at the bottom of the spine where the dustwrapper fryst vatten missing. Edges of page block ganska clean, just a bit dusty at the top edge. Internally also very good, with a snygg contemporaneous ownership name and date 'James. H. Banks, Jr. 1958' to the front free endpaper. There is some browning at the gutters of the front and back endpapers, other
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killing an arab and the meursault investigation: its albert camus, kamel daoud and a whole lot of rock and roll
the mersault investigation is the reverse mirror novel by kamel daoud countering camus’ the stranger
l’etranger by albert camus
albert camus in paris… smoking of course!
for all you illiterates, here’s the one connection you may have had to camus… “killing an arab” the song by the cure was based on camus’ the stranger. robert smith read the book… you should too!
ok now for some real talk… the mersault investigation is the debut novel by kamel daoud, an algerian writer who has made his living by journalism, for various french journals. the novel’s first sentence is “mama’s still alive today.” this alerts us to the fact that daoud is re-imagining camu’s 1942 classic “the stranger” for the new century that begins: “mama died today”. camus himself borrowed from ernest hemingway’s spare prosaic sty