[BULLETIN PYRÉNÉEN] - Lot 273

[BULLETIN PYRÉNÉEN] Bulletin des Excursionnistes du Béarn (which becomes at n° 5 ) Bulletin Alpin, Organe de la Section de Pau du CAF et de la Soc. des Excursionnistes du Béarn (then from n° 6) Bulletin Pyrénéen. Published with the support of the Pau Section of the CAF and the Soc. des Excursionnistes du Béarn (these sections are joined by) La Société des Touristes Ossalois, La Section Basque, La Section de Bagnères, La Section des Pyrénées Centrales. Pau, Garet, Marrimpouey. Small then large in-8 magazine, continuous pagination by year, approx. 25 pages per issue, illustrations in and out of text. From n° 1 (May 1896) to n° 178 (November-December1925). 16 volumes ½ period black chagrin, titles and years gilt on spines, spines rubbed on one volume. Rare set of the bulletin from 1896 to 1928 in a homogeneous binding (Labarère 313). Founded in 1896 in Pau. Despite a late appearance for the discovery of the Pyrenees, "The team that writes this Bulletin is second to none. The new generation is seeing quickly and well, and above all they are seeing new things: the third discovery of the Pyrenees has begun. This Bulletin... is so successful... that it becomes the organ of the Pyrenean Societies throughout the chain. From then on, it became the essential, standard document that it still is today: MEILLON, SAINT-SAUD, CADIER, FONTAN de NÉGRIN, BELLOC, LABROUCHE, BRIET, d'USSELL HEID LE BONDIDIER, GOURDON SCHRADER and above all Henri BERALDI, whose research made the Bulletin a publication of extraordinary and exceptional interest. After the war, we find the names of BERALDI and LE BONDIDIER. Henri BRULLE comes out of his silenceThe Bulletin becomes the witness of what can be called the fourth discovery of the Pyrenees: Acrobatic Pyreneanism, which the previous period had already begun with the great BRULLE, d'USSELL and FONTAN de NÉGRIN. The birth certificate of the Groupe des Jeunes can be found in the Bulletin Pyrénéen. Retrospective Pyreneanism plays a major role with BERALDI. Abbé GAURIER describes his Études Glaciologiques, A. MEILLON his erudite runs around the Vignemale etc." The Revue began with simple reports of excursions, like other newsletters, which were then expanded and published in serial form to become genuine reference works. In 1950, the Revue was renamed Pyrénées. Raymond RITTER became editor-in-chief. From the outset, it benefited from the best writers of the time: BOISSON, CADART, BRUGNOT, d'ESPOUY, FOURCASSIÉ, LEDORMEUR, MASSIE, MAURY, LAMICQ, and has continued unabated to this day.