| Of those who read between 1921 and 1924 L'Ardent Voyage, De Sable et d'Or, La Sagesse, it seemed impossible for Fernand Mazade to surpass himself. (...) Indeed, Mazade did not seek to surpass himself, but he succeeded in something more difficult: he renewed himself. If we open his latest booklet, which Girieud adorned with a superb and resembling portrait, we are immediately dazzled by the enchantment that the poet presents to us. (....)
Now here is the disciple : Gérardot de Sermoize whose same painter, Girieud, also gives us the portrait in frontispiece |