Gros & Delettrez
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DOUMERGUE, Gaston.
See original version (French)
170
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DOUMERGUE, Gaston.
See original version (French)
Estimate €100 - €150
Voluntary lot
Description
DOUMERGUE, Gaston.
A collection of 18 letters, including one typewritten letter.
A collection of 18 letters, including one typewritten letter.
1906–1935.
Several letters are written on letterhead from the Senate, the Senate Presidency or the Ministry of the Colonies. One signed note addressed to Tournefeuille.
Most are addressed to ‘my dear friend’, though there are a few more formal letters.
Gaston Doumergue (1863–1937), a Radical statesman from the Gard region, served as President of the Republic from 1924 to 1931 following a distinguished parliamentary and ministerial career under the Third Republic. A lawyer, who served as a minister on several occasions and later as President of the Senate, he embodied a figure of republican moderation. Recalled to power during the political crisis of 1934, he briefly led a government of national unity before retiring from public life for good.
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