LABORDE (S.) - Lot 209

LABORDE (S.) Ascension to Lake Artouste (Legend of the Lake), dedicated to M. le comte de Beauffort. By S. LABORDE Teacher in Livron (Basses-Pyrénées). Pau, Vignancour, 1864. Booklet in-8: VI, 26pp. ½ percaline rouge à la Bradel, black long title on spine, publisher's beige cover preserved. Rare. From 12 feet to 12 feet, the author climbs the lake and tells us its legend. An emphatic poem in which the schoolteacher guarantees "the exact route from Eaux-Bonnes to Artouste lake". If you follow him, you run the risk of missing the lake, and even the beautiful - and now denatured - Soussoueou plain. A former member of the Académie des Poètes, our teacher had left Livron in 1875 to become an officer at Sendets (Labarère 800).