Le Citoyen d'une Republique [Translation: The Citizen of a Republic]; Conference faite a la Sorbonne 23 Avril 1910 [Translation: Lecture given at the Sorbonne on April 23, 1910]
Paris: Librairie Hachette Et Cie, 1910. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. TEXT IS IN FRENCH. RARE surviving copy of a quickly published contemporary ephemeral version of a work of enduring value. Format is approximately 4.875 inches by 7.25 inches. [2], 31, [1] pages. Frontispiece portrait of Theodore Roosevelt with facsimile signature, with flimsy. Cover worn, soiled with some edge chips. Theodore Roosevelt delivered the speech entitled “Citizenship in a Republic” at the Sorbonne in Paris on April 23, 1910. The speech is popularly known as “The Man in the Arena.” His statements at the Sorbonne were part of a larger trip to Europe. Librairie Hachette was founded in 1826 by Louis Hachette as Brédif, a bookshop and publishing company. It became L. Hachette et Compagnie on 1 January 1846. Louis Christophe François Hachette (5 May 1800 – 31 July 1864) was a French publisher who established a Paris publishing house. Publications were initially focused on the classics and subsequently expanded to include books and magazines of all types. Hachette lent the weight of his influence towards a just settlement of issues relating to international literary copyright. One reference to a 2013 auction sale was found through an extensive Internet search. Over the course of his time in the public eye, Theodore Roosevelt gave a number of moving, influential, highly quotable public addresses—but none of them has the legacy of the speech he delivered in Paris on April 23, 1910, which would become one of the most widely quoted orations of his career. The former president—who left office in 1909, embarked on a tour of Northern Africa and Europe in 1910, attending events and giving speeches in places like Cairo, Berlin, Naples, and Oxford. He stopped in Paris on April 23 and made his way to the Sorbonne, where “fully 25,000 persons packed the streets,” in the words of the newspapers. At 3 p.m., before a crowd that included “ministers in court dress, army and navy officers in full uniform, nine hundred students, and an audience of two thousand ticket holders, Roosevelt delivered a speech called “Citizenship in a Republic,” which would come to be known as “The Man in the Arena.” “Citizenship in a Republic” made headlines around the world. It ran in the Journal des Debats as a Sunday supplement, got sent to the teachers of France by Le Temps, was printed by Librairie Hachette on Japanese vellum, was turned into a pocket book that sold 5000 copies in five days, and was translated across Europe. The speech was a wild success. “Several times the applause lasted two minutes and was probably the greatest demonstration ever given a foreign lecturer,” one newspaper noted. “So eager was every one [outside] to get a glimpse of Roosevelt that frequent clashes with the police occurred.”. Condition: Good.
Keywords: Theodore Roosevelt, Citizenship, Man in the Arena, Periodicals, Speeches, Orations, Quotations, Popular Culture, Courage, Tenacity, Perseverance, Commitment, Engagement
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