Robida, Normandie, La vieille France, Réimpression.

Anastatic reproduction of the first edition published in 1890 in Paris at La Librairie illustrée. Limited edition of 2000 copies.

Albert Robida (1848 - 1926), a draughtsman and novelist who tried his hand at everything: illustration, caricature, journalism, novels, etc. His pencil stroke is brilliant, he draws the future like no one else, he is scrupulous in his representation of the present. Effervescent and unclassifiable, he launched several magazines. Curious, open, passionate, erudite, scrupulous, he has tried everything and succeeded everywhere. The pencil stroke of this jack-of-all-trades genius was noticed by his first employer, whose clients he sketched with accuracy and a touch of cruelty. His boss, a notary, didn't appreciate it and he put his clerk back on the street. In his first series of works on Old Towns, initiated in 1878 with those of Italy, which were followed by the series of La Vieille France, limited to four works Normandy, Brittany, Touraine, Provence, then in his books on the Old Towns of Flanders, those of the Rhine, or between the Rhine and the Moselle, the admirable Rothenburg, a town of the past (with its thirteen etchings), to end with his lithographic suites, Carcassonne, Les Cathédrales de France and À travers la France Monumentale, Robida pays constant homage to the 'old stones': "O old towns, I love you..." is not the profession of faith displayed at the very beginning of his first travel book.