BEL-AMI by GUY DE MAUPASSANT (Herbert A. Bruce Bookplate)

BEL-AMI by GUY DE MAUPASSANT (Herbert A. Bruce Bookplate) LEATHER BOUND Deluxe Edition 30 Janvier 1902 Publisher: Louis Conard, Libraire-Editeur, Paris 1910 Oeuvres completes Date Published: 1910 Language: French Binding: Hardcover, 596 pages Condition: This book is in good - very good condition. Leather bound, decorative front impression design with hearts, flower, chain link, coins, and pen and ink quill, top edge gilt, gilt lettering on spine, raised bands. Rubbing to spine and bumped corners and scrapes. Rubbing to edges. Decorative end papers. Minor musty odour. Green silk bookmark.

Bel-Ami chronicles journalist Georges Duroy's corrupt rise to power from a poor former cavalry NCO in France's African colonies, to one of the most successful men in Paris, most of which he achieves by manipulating a series of powerful, intelligent, and wealthy women.

Part of the Complete Works series. Oeuvres complètes.

Bookplate on inside front cover: Herbert A. Bruce, F.R.C.S (Eng). Circular impression stamp on first blank page "From the library of Dr. Herbert A. Bruce Toronto.

Price: $80.00

BOOK OWNER: Herbert A. Bruce

Herbert Alexander Bruce FRCS (September 28, 1868 - June 23, 1963), served as the 15th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, Canada, from 1932 to 1937.

Born in Blackstock, Ontario near Port Perry, Bruce was educated as a surgeon at the University of Toronto and in Paris and Vienna. He was a member of the Royal College of Surgeons. He owned Wellesley Hospital in Toronto which he founded in 1911, and was a professor of surgery at the University of Toronto. In 1916, during World War I, he was appointed inspector-general of the Canadian Army Medical Corps by Sir Sam Hughes, and attained the rank of colonel in the Canadian Army (Permanent Active Militia). In 1932, he was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Ontario by R.B. Bennett for a term that lasted until 1937.

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