Jules SIMON (Jules SUISSE dit) Lorient/ Morbihan 1814 - 1896 - Lot 478

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Jules SIMON (Jules SUISSE dit) Lorient/ Morbihan 1814 - 1896 - Lot 478
Jules SIMON (Jules SUISSE dit) Lorient/ Morbihan 1814 - 1896 - Minister of Public Instruction, Member of the Provisional Government on Sept. 4, 1870, then Head of the Government 1876 - Senator, French Academy . 16 autograph letters signed (including 6 letters on the letterhead of the Senate.), 1 Note, 1 Photo, and a funeral card. Interesting political and friendly correspondence from 1849 to 1880 + Portrait (40 x 27 cm) of Jules SIMON, photographed, executed from life, and signed (autograph) by Pierre PETIT, included in "the Gallery of Men of the Day" of 1891 + Cardboard (12 x 14.5 cm) for the "OBSECUTIONS of Mr. Jules SIMON at the Church of the Madeleine June 13, 1896. - Extracts from letters : " February 5, 1849, My dear Friend. I have just spent twelve days in Belgium, where I did a terrible job. I hope to have set in motion the creation of workers' housing on the model of Mulhouse. A society founded in Saint-Quentin has collected one hundred thousand francs in subscriptions; another in Verviers, two hundred thousand. In Liège and Ghent my words have made a great impression, and I believe that one day or another something will come of them... What do you say about PELLETAN's Campaign?" "O my dear Victor (Hugo?)... I should be very much in need of seeing you in London... You are very good to speak to me of my Liberty... You speak to me of my last book..." he speaks of SCHOELCHER... "Do you know it? Poor MORIN is in prison again. He has been arrested, along with forty-two other young men, on charges of secret society. I believe they were simply conferring on the Elections..."
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