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an old handwritten letter with a black ink writing on a white paper
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184 - Louis de BROGLIE (1892–1987). Autograph letter, Neuilly-sur-…
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Estimate €250 - €300
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Louis de BROGLIE (1892–1987). Autograph letter, Neuilly-sur-Seine, 8 February 1957, to E. Szapiro in Toulouse; 2 oblong in-12 pages, stamped envelope. On the subject of Albert Einstein. ‘When Einstein left Germany in 1933, the French government, on the recommendation of the Collège de France, created a special chair for him at that illustrious institution. Einstein could have taken up this chair had he wished to. But the United States had also offered him a chair at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and Einstein – perhaps because he did not speak French very fluently – preferred to go to the United States, where he spent the rest of his life’”…
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Auction time 10/13/2026 at 2:00 PM
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