FRANCHE-COMTE - Haute-Saône - Gaston PRINET (1858-1933, dipl - Lot 449

FRANCHE-COMTE - Haute-Saône - Gaston PRINET (1858-1933, diplomat, from an old Franc-Comtoise family of royal notaries and magistrates, owner of Château de Suaucourt in La Roche-Morey) / Important file based on a historical work by Gaston Prinet: the translation of the war diary of Bavarian Prince Auguste de Tour-et-Taxi (1794-1862) relating the French Campaign of 1814 (Napoleonic War), it includes: the complete autograph manuscript, abundantly corrected and crossed out (381 p. large in-8, 16 x 20 cm), with numerous sheets of notes interspersed; around 30 pages of preparatory notes (some on the back of reused envelopes addressed to him); correspondence between General Jean-Lucien de MONTDESIR (1857-1943) and Prinet, his military "consultant": 6 signed autograph letters and the return of part of a fully corrected manuscript (approx. 25 double pages in-4 with Prinet's manuscript on one side and the General's notes and corrections on the other (these corrections are sent in preserved envelopes, addressed to Château de Suaucourt); correspondence from the Austrian industrialist and collector Karl GERLINGHAUS (1 signed autograph card and 1 typed letter, with signed autograph drafts of Prinet's reply, concerning gifts of prints; 1 signed autograph letter from Alfred DUMAINE, diplomat and historian, who states that the Prince de Tour-et-Taxi had served in Napoleon's armies until 1812.