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A large collection of original letters from Gabriel Hanotaux to the salonnière Mme. Edmond Archdeacon (née Anne-Françoise de Rocquigny du Faye). LAS. ALS.
by Hanotaux, Gabriel (1853 - 1944)
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Paris & L'Olivette, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin. 1910-1923. 50 Als with about 200 pages between 1910 and 1923. Most are from 1910-1913....Gabriel Hanotaux, (born Nov. 19, 1853, Beaurevoir, Francd.—died April 11, 1944, Paris), statesman, diplomat, and historian who directed a major French colonial expansion in Africa and who championed a Franco-Russian alliance that proved important in the events leading to World… Read more about this item Item Price
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Three Als from Henry Bordeaux to the salonnière Mme. Edmond Archdeacon (née Anne-Françoise de Rocquigny du Faye).
by Bordeaux, Henry (25 January 1870 -29 March 1963
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Paris : 1917-1918. Carte de visite, card and letter all signed with handwritten messages. ...Fils d’avocat, Henry Bordeaux perpétua la tradition familiale et fit des études de droit, à Paris. Licencié ès lettres et en droit, il s’inscrivit en 1889 au barreau de Thonon. Après avoir exercé pendant quelques années à Paris, puis dans sa ville natale où l’avait… Read more about this item Item Price
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Collection of Als from Louis Barthou to the salonnière Mme. Edmond Archdeacon (née Anne-Françoise de Rocquigny du Faye).
by Barthou, Louis (1862-1934)
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Paris: 1915-1933. 22 Als (some on card stock; 4 on cartes de visite)... Louis Barthou, (born Aug. 25, 1862, Oloron-Sainte-Marie, Fr.—died Oct. 9, 1934, Marseille), French premier (1913), conservative statesman, and long-time colleague of Raymond Poincaré. He was assassinated with King Alexander of Yugoslavia during the latter’s visit to France in 1934.... Trained as a lawyer and first elected… Read more about this item Item Price
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Two Als from Paul Cambon to the salonnière Mme. Edmond Archdeacon (née Anne-Françoise de Rocquigny du Faye).
by Cambon, Paul (1843-1924)
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Paris : 146, boulevard Haussman, circva 1920. Carte de visite, and letter all signed with handwritten messages. ...M. Paul Cambon was born on Jan. 20, 1843, and is the elder brother of the equally famed Jules Martin Cambon, French Ambassador to Germany (1907-14). He entered the public service as private secretary to Jules Ferry in the Prefecture of the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Letter from Pierre de Nolhac to the salonnière Mme. Edmond Archdeacon (née Anne-Françoise de Rocquigny du Faye).
by Nolhac, Pierre de (1859 -1936)
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Paris: Musée Jacquemart-André, circa 1920. Als. 1p.. . . Pierre de Nolhac was the curator of the Palace of Versailles between 1892 and 1920 and one of the stand-out figures in the history of the museum. Made a Member of the Académie Française in 1922, Nolhac undertook a metamorphosis of the Palace of Versailles, transforming Louis-Philippe’s museum from the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Collection of Als from Paul Hervieu de l'Académie française to the salonnière Mme. Edmond Archdeacon (née Anne-Françoise de Rocquigny du Faye).
by Hervieu, Paul (1857-1915)
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Paris : Venue du Bois de Boulogne, 1909-1914. Carte de visite, 5 Als (3 on card stock)signed with handwritten messages. ...Paul Hervieu est de la famille des grands auteurs dramatiques de tous les pays et de tous les temps. Il a étudié, comme Eschyle, comme Shakespeare, comme Corneille et Racine, la lutte de l’homme contre la destinée. Il a… Read more about this item Item Price
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Collection of Als from Paul Hervieu de l'Académie française to the salonnière Mme. Edmond Archdeacon (née Anne-Françoise de Rocquigny du Faye).
by Bourget, Paul (1852-1935)
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Paris : 20 rue Barbet de Jouy, 1913-1923. 8 Als (6 on card stock) , 14 pp.signed with handwritten messages. ...After completing his studies in philosophy, Bourget began his career as a poet, and several of his poems were set to music by Claude Debussy. Encouraged and deeply influenced by the critic Hippolyte Taine, he published a series… Read more about this item Item Price
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2 letters from Monseigneur de Cormont to the salonnière Mme. Edmond Archdeacon (née Anne-Françoise de Rocquigny du Faye).
by Cormont, Monseigneur Marie-Charles-Alfred de , Diocèse d'Aire et Dax (1847-1933)
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Aix, France:1919 - 1921. 2 Als. 4pp. . .Le 3 août 1911, monseigneur Marie-Charles-Alfred de Cormont quitte la Martinique pour rejoindre la France dans le Diocèse d'Aire et Dax (1911-1930).... The recipient of the letter is: Mme. Edmond Archdeacon (1872-1960) née Anne-Françoise de Rocquigny du Faye) was the widow of Edmond Archdeacon (1864-1906.)...She held salons and many of the letters… Read more about this item Item Price
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Twelve Als from Julia Bartet to the salonnière Mme. Edmond Archdeacon (née Anne-Françoise de Rocquigny du Faye).
by Bartet, Jeanne Julia (1854-1941); aka Jeanne-Julie Regnault.
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Paris : La Comédie Francaise, 1910-1921 . 12 Cartes de visite, cards and letters all signed with handwritten messages. 21pp. ... BORN 28 Oct 1854, Paris: 2, rue Croix des Petits-Champs - DIED 18 Nov 1941, Paris BIRTH NAME Regnault, Jeanne-Julia GRAVE LOCATION Paris: Passy Cimetière, 2 Rue du Commandant Schloesing (division 15).... Julia Bartet was the daughter of the sculptor Charles-Ferdinand… Read more about this item Item Price
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Collection of Als from Henri-Robert to the salonnière Mme. Edmond Archdeacon (née Anne-Françoise de Rocquigny du Faye).
by Henri-Robert (1863 -1936)
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Paris: 98 boulevard Pereire, 1891-1930. 15 Als, a few on card stock.....Devenu avocat en 1885, il fut secrétaire de la Conférence et acquit une rapide notoriété par ses plaidoiries dans de célèbres affaires criminelles. Son nom fut lié notamment à l’affaire Gouffé, dans laquelle il défendait Gabrielle Bompart, accusée de complicité dans le meurtre d’un huissier de justice. Son… Read more about this item Item Price
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Five Als from La comtesse Greffulhe to the salonnière Mme. Edmond Archdeacon (née Anne-Françoise de Rocquigny du Faye).
by La comtesse Greffulhe, née Elisabeth de Caraman-Chimay (1860-1952).
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Paris : 8, rue d'Astorg, 1912-1941. 5 cartes de visite, cards and letters all signed with handwritten messages. 14pp. ...Comtesse Greffulhe was one of the society ladies featured as Duchesse de Guermantes in « Remembrance of things past » by Marcel Proust. … Her very aldulterous husband, Henry Greffulhe, spent his life shooting and womanising. And being jealous of… Read more about this item Item Price
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Collection of Als from Jacques Pierre Bainville to the salonnière Mme. Edmond Archdeacon (née Anne-Françoise de Rocquigny du Faye).
by Bainville, Jacques Pierre (1879 -1936)
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Paris: la revue universelle and L'Action Française,1921-1930. 8 Als, most with letterheads of la revue universelle and L'Action Française .. Jacques Pierre Bainville ( 9 February 1879 – 9 February 1936) was a French historian and journalist. A geopolitical theorist, concerned by Franco-German relations, he was a leading figure in the monarchist Action Française. As fascinated as… Read more about this item Item Price
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4 letters from Abel Bonnard to the salonnière Mme. Edmond Archdeacon (née Anne-Françoise de Rocquigny du Faye).
by Bonnard, Abel ( 1883-1968)
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Paris: 1921-1934. 4 Als. 7pp. . .Abel Bonnard (1883-1968) écrivain, ministre de l’Instruction publique du gouvernement de Vichy [ exclu en 1944]....Poet, Novelist, Politician. Views evolved towards fascism in the 1930s. Bonnard was one of the ministers of National Education under the Vichy regime, for which he was expelled from the Academie Francaise, tried and convicted to 10 years… Read more about this item Item Price
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Autograph letters from Comte de Pinto & de Villozo, to Monsieur Surian, Paris.
by Pinto & La Villozo, Comte de
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Marseille: 1809-1810. 3 Als. 8pp. Pinto possibly related to the Jewish philosopher Isaac de Pinto (1717–1787). Item Price
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A collection of 3 autograph letters by François de Bourbon, comte de Busset in his capacity at Chef d'Etat-Major in the Garde Royale,
by Bourbon-Busset, Comte François Joseph de (1782-1856)
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Frankfurt and Nice: 1860. 3 Als. written in French regarding military matters in his capacity at Chef d'Etat-Major in the Garde Royale,. Born in Paris,, Paris, Île-de-France on 04 Feb. 1782 to Louis François Joseph de Bourbon-Busset and Elisabeth Louise Bourgeois de Boynes. François Louis Joseph, comte debusset, de BOURBON-BUSSET married Charlotte Sabine Louise Gabrielle de Gontaut-Biron… Read more about this item Item Price
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A collection of 4 autograph letters by Jean-Pons-Guillaume Viennet (1777-1868).
by Viennet, Jean, Pons, Guillaume (1777-1868)
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Paris: 1820s. VIENNET (Jean Guillaume). littérateur et député né à Béziers. 1777-1868. Elu à. l'Académie française en 1830. Pair de France en 1840. Il a laissé des romans, poèmes épiques et des fables ayant un caractère politique..... Ensemble de 4 pièces jointes: 1) L.A.S .. 1 p. in-8. s.d. Intéressante lettre. "Tu quo que, mon cher Brissault, vous parler du… Read more about this item Item Price
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A collection of 2 autograph letters by the 19th Century Russian writer, Ivan Golovin.
by Golovin, Ivan (1816-1890)
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Frankfurt and Nice: 1860. 2 Als. written in French regarding publishing his works in France, notably "Mélanges" and "Mémoires.".... He was a Russian publicist and writer, who had published several popular works about the Russian empire in French, German and English. After graduating from the University of Derpt in 1837, he pursued a diplomatic career… Read more about this item Item Price
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A collection of 24 autograph letters related to the Nonciature apostolique and the giudice nel Tribunale civile della Senna of the Vatican based in Paris in the 1870s during the reign of Pope Pius IX .
by Pope Pius IX (1792-1878)
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Paris: 1873-1880. 24 Als. mainly adressed to the Vatican judge based in Paris Ernesto Orville as "giudice nel Tribunale civile della Senna" at 71 rue St. Dominique. Most were hand delivered with wax seal on the envelopes. Two have official letterheads: Basilique Paroissiale de Ste. Clotilde and Nonciature Apostolique en France. Item Price
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Autograph letter from Pierre-Joseph Boyer (président de du Cour de Cassation en 1829).
by Boyer, Pierre-Joseph (1754-1853)
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Paris: 1837. Als. 2 pp. relative to le roi... Pierre-Joseph Boyer est un magistrat et homme politique français né le 14 novembre 1754 à Toulouse (Haute-Garonne) et décédé le 24 février 1853 à Paris.... Biographie. Issue d'une famille de Toulouse anoblie par le capitoulat de la ville, il s'installe à Paris comme avocat en 1781. Il entre au service de Louis-Jean-Marie de… Read more about this item Item Price
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A collection of manuscript poems by Dante; Giosuè Carducci; Giovanni Pascoli ; Giacomo Leopardi ; Percy Bysshe Shelley ; Gabriele D'Annunzio; Ugo Foscolo; Christoper Isherwood; John Donne....copied by Paul William Gallico (1897-1976) in ink.
by Gallico, Paul William (1897-1976)
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Italy: circa 1946. Als. 16 x 21.3cm,.,82pp. bound and 4 loose.A collection of poems copied by Gallico including works by Dante; Giosuè Carducci; Giovanni Pascoli ; Giacomo Leopardi ; Percy Bysshe Shelley ; Gabriele D'Annunzio; Ugo Foscolo; Christoper Isherwood; John Donne.... 2 dry plant leaves. In a decorative board blank book from F. Pineider Firenze-Roma.… Read more about this item Item Price
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