BARON BRISSE LA CUISINE DES FAMILLES [FAMILY COOKING Including tips on how to repurpose leftovers] Paris: Ernest Flammarion, [1926]. In French

428 pp. 20x13 cm. Hardback, pictorial cloth backed boards, line illustrations. Cover edges bumped, back cover slightly damaged. A very good clean copy. A general cookery book with sections on left-over dishes and various diets. Ildéfonse-Léon Brisse (1807-1876), known as Baron Brisse, was a notable celebrity of the Second Empire and a good friend of Alexandre Dumas. He wrote on food for Le Figaro and La Liberte.