Maurice WEIL (1845-1924, military man and historian, his nam - Lot 450

Maurice WEIL (1845-1924, military man and historian, his name is inseparable from that of his friend Commandant Esterhazy, he was involved in the Dreyfus Affair) / 1°) Correspondence of 4 signed autograph letters totaling 6 p in-8, December 1923 / June 3, 1924 (i.e. 1 month before his death), to Gaston Pringet (1858-1933, diplomat and historian), about the latter's historical work on the 1814 Campaign, 3 envelopes preserved (including 2 with the philatelic cachet of the 1924 Paris Olympic Games), one of the letters is written on the back of a 2 p. autograph letter signed by Austrian Feldmarchall-Leutnant Maximilian von HOEN (1867-1940, military historian and director of the Vienna Military Archives), communicating a reply to a piece of information / 2°) Autograph letter signed by his widow Henriette of November 23, 1924 (direct descendant of the Rothschilds), with obituary / 3°) Autograph manuscript of 141 p. large in-8 by Gaston PRINGET: "Notes prises sur la Campagne de 1814 du Commandant Weil afin d'éclaircir ma traduction du Journal de Guerre du Prince Auguste de Tour-et-Taxi".