Olympic Games/Prehistory/Daryl. First edition of "La Renaiss - Lot 366

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Olympic Games/Prehistory/Daryl. First edition of "La Renaiss - Lot 366
Olympic Games/Prehistory/Daryl. First edition of "La Renaissance Physique" by Philippe Daryl (alias Paschal Grousset, 1844-1909). Very first edition of this FUNDAMENTAL essay on the history of sport, and on the genesis of the Olympic Games.published by Hetzel in October 1888 (first serialized in "Le Temps", from August 8, 1888), throughout its 258 pages divided into 19 chapters, it sweeps all the history of the first sports disciplines. Starting from the fundamental "tub", he ends with the Athenian republic (the portico on the cover is a nice summary), and this by taking several conventions in the wrong direction. He praises the palm (fabulous), yachting (budget, sails, America), rowing (Oxford-Cambridge, hot), rugby (Eton), pedestrians, shooting, mountaineering, etc... On the other hand, Amoros's gymnastics is shot down in flames, as well as the Renaissance and its aftermath, or soccer ("a game of cads arousing the lower passions"). In short, a book which is deflating, until its final, because it is well him, the Corsican, the Communard, the banished, the negro of Jules Verne, the anti-bonapartist, the deputy, who the FIRST launches: "Olympic Games, the word is said. We should have our own...". A genius very unjustly forgotten despite a considerable educational work. Numerous traces of oxidation, but faults of hindering the reading, they give him of the authenticity... 18,5x12. Loose, to be bound. With Eugène Chapus (1800-1877), Eugène Paz (1835-1901), Richard Lesclide (1825-1892) and Pierre Giffard (1853-1922), he is the fifth of the first Musketeers of the French sport and of the Olympics-sporting games, because they are indeed journalists who invented the sport in France...
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