TO FORGET PALERMO BY: EDMONDE CHARLES-ROUX

FEATURES: TO FORGET PALERMO BY: EDMONDE CHARLES-ROUX

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A) CONDITION BOOK: NEAR FINE - HARD BOUND

B) CONDITION DUST JACKET: VERY GOOD - NOT PRICE CLIPPED [$5.95]

C) FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING - DELACOURTE PRESS 1968

D) NOTE: AUTHOR MEMBER OF FIRST RESISTANCE IN WORLD WAR II. RECIPIENT OF CROIX DE GUERRE AND MULTIPLE OTHER HONOURS.  304 PAGES.

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About:
The most popular Prix Goncourt novel since 'The Last of the Just'. An intense, tender and tragic love story, a tale of two cities, Palermo and New York, and the violent contrast between the worlds they represent.

Charles-Roux was born in 1920 at Neuilly-sur-Seine, the daughter of Francois Charles-Roux, the former French ambassador to Czechoslovakia, a member of the Institut de France and the last chairman of the Suez Canal Company. Her paternal grandfather, Jules Charles-Roux, was a businessman and politician.

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Charles-Roux was a volunteer nurse in World War II, at first in a French Foreign Legion unit, the 11th infantry regiment abroad. She was wounded at Verdun while bringing aid to a legionnaire.

Then she joined the Resistance, again as a nurse. After the landings in Provence, she was attached to the 5th Armored Division, where she performed as a nurse but also as a divisional social assistant. She also served in the 1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment (1er REC) and the Mechanized Regiment of the Foreign Legion (RMLE).

Decorated with the Croix de Guerre, she was made Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur in 1945, and received the distinction of Vivandière d'honneur from the RMLE at the hands of Louis-Antoine Gaultier, corps commander.

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