*Stéphane Mallarmé]. Almanach universitaire des Apaches pour de bon. Bruxelles, [Ed. Rossel] Imprimerie Vanbuggenhoudt, [late 1891?], booklet in-8 [63 p.]; br., ill. covers printed in black and red. Paper sleeve, slipcase (Atelier Devauchelle). Unknown pastiche [by Maurice Campion]: "En souvenance du combat de Reischoffen (1870) / Rythmes / [sonnet] / Novembre 1891 / Stellarme Malphané" p. [50]. We refer you to George Garnir's extraordinary, highly accurate reminiscences of the heyday of the zwanze and zaniness of Brussels' universities and theatres: "With my old and dear friend Maurice Campion, who died too soon [...] I also unearthed the Almanach des Apaches, a booklet improvised on the benches of the University, but which looked more like it had been written in the foyer of a ball on Mardi Gras night. It contained pastiches of Zola, Mendès, Albert Giraud, Mallarmé, François Coppée and Maeterlinck, which I have no hesitation in describing as sparkling because they were written by Campion, not me. The work was dedicated to the appariteurs of the Université [libre de Bruxelles] and, by virtue of a treaty concluded with Mgr. the Archbishop of Malines, guaranteed 40 days of indulgence to all its readers, of whatever sex. It contained the history of the Society of University Apaches, an apology for Sqwaw, later ephemera, tales, the national Apache song, real-life stories, remarkable thoughts, a monograph on the mustang, recipes for cleaning your teeth and getting off a moving streetcar, and more. Charles Tichon [see 56] had illustrated this masterpiece [signature on 2nd plate] and Émile Rossel had published it on trust, without reading it. Now, there was a "à la manière de..." applied to Zola (La Terre had just been published [1889, sic]) which, without having to alert a substitute - ah! mon Dieu, non! - nonetheless evoked, with some picturesqueness, the mores of Trouille, Jésus-Christ and Bécu and their banter. When the book was published, V. Rossel shuddered, feeling that he was on the lookout for Le Patriote, which was pulling out all the stops in its battle with a rival newspaper [the future famous Soir founded by the Rossels], whose danger he sensed for himself. To throw the edition into the heap would have been all the more unthinkable as copies had already entered circulation; not to throw it into the heap would have given this good apostle of Patriote the opportunity to denounce the immorality of Le Soir, publisher of publications which... publications whose... It turned out that Rossel's name appeared only twice in the booklet: once on the cover and once in a piece of verse ending with: C'est chez Rossel qu'on vend l'Almanach des Apaches. Rossel didn't hesitate: he had the cover trimmed and, thus preparing for the joys of future bibliophiles, occupied a team of workers scratching the unfortunate line inside the book with a penknife"... (George Garnir, Souvenirs d'un revuiste, ill. by Ochs. Brussels, Des presses de l'Expansion belge, 5th edition, s.d. p. 42-43). Rossel's scratched-out name was in the last line of Mallarmé's pastiche! Henri Disière, a future senator, and Garnir launched the new Journal des Étudiants on November 5, 1888 until 1914. "On the front page, the new journal published lithographed portraits of professors, which Charles Tichon, who had a photographic eye and the fingers of a miniaturist, produced for us at a hundred cents a piece: some of them are little masterpieces of craftsmanship. The fourth page featured anecdotal drawings, by the good giant Gustave Dreypondt, Carl Meunier, Émile-Antoine Coulon, Amédée Lynen, Rocher, Marius Renard, etc." (p. 24). Unclipped, complete, simply to be bound. Extremely rare. Only one ex. listed at KBR.