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FASCISM - ANNUNZIO (Gabriele d'): Manifesto to the French people. Exelsior, September 27, 1919. Very rare special issue of Exelsior publishing exclusively the political manifesto of Annunzio, handwritten and delivered to Albert Londres on September 22, 1919 in Fiume after the capture of the city. "Fiume, September 22, 1919 - This evening, at seven o'clock, in his palace, Gabriele d'Annunzio gave to my friend Tudesq and to me - the only journalists who entered Fiume - the text of the attached message, so that by our care, he said, "this message would be carried to the French people". He then placed in my hands, destined only for the Excelsior, the autograph of this manifesto." (Albert Londres) "Brothers of France, you know what we have done, under the inspiration and protection of our God. The most Italian of the cities of Italy, today more Italian than Verona or Pisa or Perugia or any other distinguished commune, was lost to us, under the threat of all profanations and all violations. I was sick in bed. I got up to answer the call. The strength did not leave me. I and my companions all obeyed the spirit, and through it we overcame every hindrance and misery... "etc. "It is September 1919. Europe breathes again the pure air of peace. While the weapons are silent and its borders are redrawn by the United States, France and the United Kingdom, in Italy they cry out for injustice. A dandy poet-soldier, Gabriele D'Annunzio, denounced the "mutilated victory" of his country, which had hoped to obtain much more from the collapse of Austria-Hungary. As a volunteer, the herald of Italian nationalism is also a war hero by his brilliant actions. He put his verve, his charisma and his glory at the service of the cause of Fiume. This port on the Dalmatian coast, populated by Italians and surrounded by Slavs, became the stumbling block between Italy and the future kingdom of Yugoslavia. The great powers refused to take sides and wanted to make it a "free city". Gabriele D'Annunzio is going to free it. At the head of a handful of conspirators, veterans and shock troops, he seized Fiume on 12 September 1919. Not a shot was fired and not a drop of blood was shed. It was the beginning of a political and artistic epic that would last fifteen months. The list of those who came to participate in it was growing: futurists, anarchists, revolutionary trade unionists, artists, adventurers of all kinds. They talk about the liberation of oppressed people and live the sexual liberation, they practice vegetarianism and naturism while consuming narcotics... The laboratory of the XXth century with its passions and its utopias. Sex, Drugs and Fox Trot. The Roaring Twenties begin in Fiume (Olivier Tosseri)
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FASCISM - ANNUNZIO (Gabriele d'): Manifesto to the French people. Exelsior, September 27, 1919. Very rare special issue of Exelsior publishing exclusively the political manifesto of Annunzio, handwritten and delivered to Albert Londres on September 22, 1919 in Fiume after the capture of the city. "Fiume, September 22, 1919 - This evening, at seven o'clock, in his palace, Gabriele d'Annunzio gave to my friend Tudesq and to me - the only journalists who entered Fiume - the text of the attached message, so that by our care, he said, "this message would be carried to the French people". He then placed in my hands, destined only for the Excelsior, the autograph of this manifesto." (Albert Londres) "Brothers of France, you know what we have done, under the inspiration and protection of our God. The most Italian of the cities of Italy, today more Italian than Verona or Pisa or Perugia or any other distinguished commune, was lost to us, under the threat of all profanations and all violations. I was sick in bed. I got up to answer the call. The strength did not leave me. I and my companions all obeyed the spirit, and through it we overcame every hindrance and misery... "etc. "It is September 1919. Europe breathes again the pure air of peace. While the weapons are silent and its borders are redrawn by the United States, France and the United Kingdom, in Italy they cry out for injustice. A dandy poet-soldier, Gabriele D'Annunzio, denounced the "mutilated victory" of his country, which had hoped to obtain much more from the collapse of Austria-Hungary. As a volunteer, the herald of Italian nationalism is also a war hero by his brilliant actions. He put his verve, his charisma and his glory at the service of the cause of Fiume. This port on the Dalmatian coast, populated by Italians and surrounded by Slavs, became the stumbling block between Italy and the future kingdom of Yugoslavia. The great powers refused to take sides and wanted to make it a "free city". Gabriele D'Annunzio is going to free it. At the head of a handful of conspirators, veterans and shock troops, he seized Fiume on 12 September 1919. Not a shot was fired and not a drop of blood was shed. It was the beginning of a political and artistic epic that would last fifteen months. The list of those who came to participate in it was growing: futurists, anarchists, revolutionary trade unionists, artists, adventurers of all kinds. They talk about the liberation of oppressed people and live the sexual liberation, they practice vegetarianism and naturism while consuming narcotics... The laboratory of the XXth century with its passions and its utopias. Sex, Drugs and Fox Trot. The Roaring Twenties begin in Fiume (Olivier Tosseri)
