PANAMA CANAL. The Countess of LESSEPS. Louise Autard de Brag - Lot 459

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PANAMA CANAL. The Countess of LESSEPS. Louise Autard de Brag - Lot 459
PANAMA CANAL. The Countess of LESSEPS. Louise Autard de Bragard (1848-1909), born in Mauritius, second wife of Ferdinand de LESSEPS (1805-1894), Viscount de Lesseps, diplomat, entrepreneur at the origin of the Suez Canal and implicated in the Panama scandal - Letter A.S. of December 7, 1892, addressed to the Baroness Popper It speaks at length about the affair of PANAMA. Signed "Ctesse de Lesseps". Envelope closed with a black wax seal: "Thank you, dear Madam... We await justice (even that of men) with the greatest calm although it is revolting in the end to be persecuted by a handful of saltimbanques who have never had the honor of their country as an objective but the unhealthy need to tarnish all its glories. To these incompetents, scandal is their most active hobby. Fate has made us, their prey, and every time the country is troubled,... they take out this poor PANAMA as fodder for the ferocious beasts. Has anyone ever tried for a moment to save this three-quarter finished enterprise, to do this good work, ever! How can we not see through the hypocrites of these unfortunate Freemasons! We must believe in God, in his justice, and not in chance. I assure you that I suffered a thousand times more when the work of Mr. de LESSEPS, in whom we had such great confidence, was stopped in its tracks, than all these despicable attacks..."
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