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THE BACCHANTES

TO ARTHÈME FAYARD2

To his admirable spirit of enterprise

and assemblage,

who has done so much for French letters,

on the golden anniversary of our friendship, begun in 1881 at Louis-le-Grand,

and continued, without interruption, until today.

His old comrade,

LÉON DAUDET

August 1931

2. Arthème Fayard (1866-1936) followed his father into the publishing busineesss, taking over the family firm in 1894. He produced an edition of the collected works of Alphonse Daudet, and Léon Daudet’s Les Morticoles, but was best known as a canny promoter of popular fiction, including the highly successful Fantômas series.