LABBÉ, Paul (1867-1943) - Lot 128

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LABBÉ, Paul (1867-1943) - Lot 128
LABBÉ, Paul (1867-1943) French explorer, orientalist, geographer and ethnographer. Great traveler, specialist in the Russian world, Central Asia and the Balkans, general secretary of the Société de géographie and important figure in French geographical popularization in the early XXᵉ century. Important corrected autograph working manuscript, entitled "Conférence", relating to a trip to Serbia (1909), circa 1909-1910. Set of approximately 20 in-8 pages, printed with numerous autograph corrections, erasures, deletions and additions in black ink, signed and annotated "Paul Labbé". Very interesting preparatory manuscript for a lecture on Serbia, its landscapes, social structures, customs, agriculture, mining resources and political context. The extremely rich text describes: Belgrade and the Danube the Timok Valley and the Iron Gates Serbian rural customs the slava, the patronal family festival villages, livestock and crops Austro-Hungarian tensions and the Bosnian question Particularly evocative are passages on : "the great Serbia "Bosnia becoming Austrian "the fear of a general conflagration". giving the whole a remarkable premonitory dimension just a few years before Sarajevo. The numerous autograph corrections show a real state of work, probably intended for public reading or publication.
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