REBATET (Lucien). Les Deux étendards. Paris, Gallimard, 1951. 2 volumes in-8, paperback. First edition. One of 105 first copies on vellum pur fil (n°2). Begun in Sigmaringen and completed in prison, this monumental novel was published by Gallimard thanks to the support of Paulhan. Writers such as Albert Camus, Antoine Blondin and George Steiner considered it a masterpiece, and François Mitterrand is said to have said: "There are two kinds of men: those who have read Les Deux Étendards, and those who have not.