Yourcenar, Margeurite. (1903–1987) [Monteux Barendse, Nancie. (1917–2013)] [Monteux, Pierre. (1875–1964)]. Souvenirs Pieux - INSCRIBED TO NANCIE MONTEUX ("this world ...where music played such a different role than it does for us"). [Paris]: Editions Gallimard. 1974. The first volume of the important French novelist and essayist's three-part memoir Le Labyrinthe du monde, signed and inscribed on the front endpaper to Nancie Monteux [Barendse], daughter of Pierre Monteux and director of the Pierre Monteux School after his death. Yourcenar writes (translated from the French): "To Nancie Monteux, / this world of the end of the nineteenth century, where music played such a different role than it does for us." She signs boldly and dates August 11, 1979. Softcover with original dust jacket; one tear to the spine of the jacket, but overall in very good condition. 302 pp. 5.5 x 8 inches (14 x 20.5 cm). From the estate of Nancie Monteux Barendse.