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1929 happenings in France according to Janet Flanner for Paris in July The Hours Press An item of exceptional interest to New York bibliophiles is the Hours Press, just set up by Nancy Peronnik the Fool , to be followed by The Eaten Heart , by Richard Aldington; One Day , by Norman Douglas; A Plaquette of Poems , by Iris Tree; Canto , by Ezra Pound; and La Chasse au Snark  (Carroll’s famous The Hunting of the Snark), translated into French by Louis Aragon.  Cunard in her country place, Puits-Carré, at Chapelle-Réanville, in the nearby Eure. The hand press is Belgian, eighteenth-century Elzevir type is used, and the book list includes only rare, modern, and new itens, in limited editions signed by the authors. The first issue is a revised version of George Moore’s Marshal Foch (1851-1929) The funeral of Marshal Foch, Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Armies in France during the last year of the war, was the greatest mourning event held in Paris since the nationa...