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Auction: 20025 - Historical Documents, Postal History and Autographs
Lot: 717

France
A group of documents (14) ranging from the Revolutionary 1790s to WWI including very interesting 1791 (20 Feb.) unsigned letter written in English to Thomas Somers-Cocks in Downing Street describing the conditions in Paris, mentioning "37,000 men and women without any visible means of support & who live on rapine & murder" ... "Paris is actually menaced with a massacre more bloody than that 1st Bartholmew"; 1816 autograph note from Marie Amelie, last Queen of France; 1839 ALS from Ferdinand Philippe, Duc d'Orleans; 1861 autograph note from Duc de Gramont; 1862 ALS from Eugene Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc; 1871 ALS from Vicomte Ferdinand Marie de Lesseps; 1881 autograph note with envelope from Alexander Dumas; 1907 appointment signed by Armand Falliers; 1922 ALS from Raymond Poincare and 1955 autograph note from Marechal Petain. A good group

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Sold for
£550

Starting price
£280