THE LITTLE TOWN

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Remy de Gourmont

Remy de Gourmont wrote a series of prose poems that were vignettes of life in his home town Coutances, which was published by Mercure in 1913. In 1922 it was made into an artist's book with woodcuts by de Gourmont's friend and fellow town-dweller Joseph Quesnel. That edition is mimotyped here in the first English translation