#le gibet

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Gaë Bolg and the Church of Fand - Le Gibet

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Sviatoslav Richter, "Le Gibet" (Ravel)

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Le Gibet - [part 2]

Collection created in 1955 at Editions Robert Laffont, and continued [# 11 to #18] at Editions Gérard (Marabout) in Verviers (who already printed the series since the beginning]. This series - ahead of its time and on the taste of the public - was entirely devoted to historical detective novels. Among the themes discussed: The Courrier de Lyon affair, the Revolution of 1848, Néron, Fouché, Cortez … In spite of remarkable texts, the collection did not exceed the 18 titles. [1955-1957]. The authors were french

Reproduced here : covers from the novels issued at Editions Gérard/Marabout in Verviers.

publisher: Editions Robert Laffont, Paris < Editions Gérard & Co, Verviers, Belgique

source:amsaklapper’s collection

Below: “Le Gibet” at Editions Robert Laffont (”Prends garde Pauline”) and “Le Gibet” at Editions Gerard/Marabout (”La damoiselle en mante bleue”)

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Le Gibet

Collection created in 1955 at Editions Robert Laffont, and continued [# 11 to #18] at Editions Gérard (Marabout) in Verviers (who already printed the series since the beginning]. This series - ahead of its time and on the taste of the public - was entirely devoted to historical detective novels. Among the themes discussed: The Courrier de Lyon affair, the Revolution of 1848, Néron, Fouché, Cortez ... In spite of remarkable texts, the collection did not exceed the 18 titles. [1955-1957]. The authors were french (except Bruce Graeme). 

Fine unknown cover art, often recto verso. Reproduced here, 9 of the 10  issues at Robert Laffont, including the verso of # 1. The series at Editions Gerard will have a different presentation.

publisher:Robert Laffont, Paris

source:amsaklapper’s collection

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a current obsession of mine (le gibet by ravel)

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Ravel, No. 2, ‘Le Gibet’, from Gaspard de la nuit [1908-1909]

Ah! Could what I hear be the yelping of the cold night wind, or the hanged man giving forth a sigh on the gallows fork? Could it be some cricket singing, crouched in the moss and the sterile ivy that the forest wears out of pity? Could it be some fly on the hunt, blowing its horn around those ears deaf to the fanfare of tally-hos? Could it be some beetle plucking, in its uneven flight a bloody hair from its bald skull? Or could it be some spider embroidering a half yard of muslin as a tie for that strangled neck? It is the bell tolling to the walls of a city under the horizon, and the carcass of a hanged man reddened by the setting sun.

-- Aloysius Bertrand, ca 1842, ‘Gaspard de la Nuit’