Lot n° 255
Estimation :
120 - 150
EUR
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Result
: 100EUR
Napoléon-Jérôme BONAPARTE (known as "Plon-Plon", 1822-1891, - Lot 255
Napoléon-Jérôme BONAPARTE (known as "Plon-Plon", 1822-1891, son of Jérôme Bonaparte, nephew of Napoléon I, brother of Princess Mathilde and first cousin of Napoléon III) / "Napoléon et ses Détracteurs", Calman-Lévy Editeur, Paris, 1887, bound in half-maroquin with corners, spine ribbed with gilt and ornate caissons, top edge gilt, copy enriched with an autograph letter signed to the woman of letters Louise Lepic 1827-1894) given in Prangins (Switzerland) on September 24, 1887 ("L'auteur qui n'oublie pas" and an autograph letter signed (2 p in-8) from Prangins on September 30, 1887, to Madame Louise Lepic: "Your letters are a ray of sunshine in my exile" (he had been struck by the 1886 Exile Law for members of the former ruling families of France), "What sad events since I have not seen you!"Fate does not spare us its blows, the latest murder committed by a German soldier on French people in France has exasperated me - and what can we do? We'll be given a derisory satisfaction and we'll say thank you, what a curse!" - The photograph of Napoleon-Jérôme Bonaparte by Disdéri (business card size) has been preserved in this book and is attached / Joint: Mariage BONAPARTE / Invitation card to the November 17, 1880 wedding of Roland Bonaparte with Marie-Félix Blanc at the Eglise Saint-Roch in Paris (11.5 x 9 cm): Roland BONAPARTE(1858-1924, scientist, grandson of Lucien Bonaparte) and Marie-Félix BLANC(1859-1882, youngest daughter of François Blanc, businessman and founder of the Société des Bains de Mer and Casino de Monaco - Princess Bonaparte died 2 years later of tuberculosis shortly after giving birth to Marie, a pioneer of psychoanalysis).
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