Faraway France. - Lot 92

Faraway France. "Le Visage de la France" Collection. Preface by General Gouraud. Paris: Horizons de France, 1930. A beautiful photographic volume devoted to the French colonial empire at its height. Illustrated with numerous heliogravure photographs, it presents the overseas territories then under French administration: North Africa, Black Africa, the Levant, Indochina, Madagascar, Oceania, and other possessions. Conceived as a vast geographical, human, and economic panorama, it now serves as an important historical record of how the French Empire was portrayed during the interwar period. The illustrations, often of high quality, document landscapes, monuments, populations, scenes of daily life, and colonial infrastructure. Large hardcover volume in the publisher’s original binding, with the title gilded on the front cover. A fine copy.