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Auction: 25066 - Historical Documents, Autographs and Ephemera
Lot: 252

(x) France
18th to 20th Century - an impressive collection of autograph letters signed, autograph letters, signed documents and photographs with comprehensively covers national life throughout the period. Housed in thirty-four ring binder albums ordered A-Z, in three carton boxes, personalities include politicians, academics, artists, writers and performers. Important names include: Paul Adam (Author), Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (Author and accademic), Jean-Pierre Aumont (Actor and holder of Legion d'Honneur and Croix de Guerre for his WWII service), Brigitte Bardot, (Actor), Louis-Alexandre Berthier (Marshal of Napoleon), Marthe Bibesco (Romanian-French author), Pierre Bonnard (Artist), Joseph Caffarelli (Soldier and Politician), August Jean Marie Bard de Schonen, Maurice Chevalier (Economist and politician), Georges-Etienne Bonnet (Politician), Leo Delibes (Composer), Eve Denise Curie (Aut00hor and daugther of Marie Curie), Gerard Depardieu (Actor), Henri Engene D'Orleans (Son of King Louis Philippe of France and Governor-General of Algeria), Pierre-Jean-Baptiste Gerbier (Lawyer and Politician), Jules Grevy (President of France), Joseph Jacques Cesaire Joffre (WWI French General), Leon Emmanuel Simon Joseph, Marquis de Laborde (Archeologist and explorer of the Nile), Marie Amelie de Bourbon (Queen to Louis Phillippe), Antoine-Marin Lemierre (Poet), Jean-Francois Millet (French Artist and founder of the Barbizon School), Jean Monnet (Economist and Politician), Marechal de Noailles (1752 siged document), Charles Emile Picard (Mathmetician), Jacques-Cesar-Alexandre, Comte Randon (Marshal of France), Adolphe Sala (French Officer of the Royal Guard Engineer at the Suez Canal), Louis Felcien Joseph Caignart de Saulcy (Numismatist, Orientalist, Archeologist and Philatelist), Madame de Stael (Author), Alexis de Tocqueville (Political scientist and author), Sir Francsco Paolo Tosti (Composer). Also Marina, Duchess of Kent signing on mount of photograph, and documents relating to the Dauphin.
c.1927-29 A selection of thirty autograph notes on the theme of peace and the League of Nations from members of L'Academie Francaise on large, numbered leaves; signatories include: Alfred Baudrillart, Rene Bazin, Pierre Benoit, Henri Bordeaux, Henri Bremond, Eugene Brieux, Joseph Bedier, Henri Benstein, Louis Bertrand, Abel Bonnard, Paul Bourget, Andre Chevrillon, Charles Maurice Donnay, Rene Doumic, Edouard Estaunie, Claude Farrere, Goerges Goyau, Gabriel Hanataux, Edmond Haraucourt, Camille Jullian, Amiral Lacaze, Heri Lavedan, Auguste-Armand Duc de La Force, Pierre de La Gorce, Georges Lecomte, Charles Le Goffic, Emile Male, Pierre de Nolhac, Georges de Porto-Riche and Marcel Provost.
The majority offered with transcriptions of the French and English translations.
Prevost writes: "Yes! All peoples are brothers. But there is the brotherliness of Abel and there that of Cain. That there be no more wars is a magnificent dream. That there be no more war except against Cain is a legitimate hope, based on reality"
A very difficult collection to replicate, and the result of many decades of dedicated study.

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Estimate
£8,000 to £10,000

Starting price
£6500