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150 - [Catulle Mendès] * Three short autograph letters (one on the…
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[Catulle Mendès] * Three short autograph letters (one on the letterhead of the newspaper *Le Voltaire*), a signed handwritten note and a signed telegram addressed to Alexandre Hepp. The items are all editorial notes (layout, proposed meetings, etc.). Good condition. *Catulle Mendès (1841–1909): novelist, poet, playwright, literary critic. [Léon Cladel * A signed autograph note dated 13 May 1881 addressed to Lejeune. An article intended for Mendès for future publication. Léon Cladel (1835–1892): French novelist and short-story writer. [Jules Clarétie] * Two short autograph letters, one of which is dated (19 May 1886); recipient unknown. Request for proofs to be sent for correction and a reference to galley proofs to be published. Excellent condition. *Jules Clarétie (1840–1913): French novelist. [Urbain Gohier] * A signed handwritten article dated 5 November 1901 addressed to the editor of ‘La petite République’; the latter attempting to justify himself following an article ‘(…) published on several occasions under the byline of its editor-in-chief, claiming that I was “an agent provocateur, a royalist agent in the pay of the Church and the King” (…) I fear that this line of reasoning may create a very misleading impression amongst all socialist activists who have been, or will yet be, acquitted in court’, referring to another article ‘(…) they will see that my article is a defence of anarchy such as no one else would have dared to write in the midst of the Hungarian terror (December 1894), in the aftermath of the Vaillant bomb’… This is followed by a plea concluding with: ‘I owed it to the readers of *La petite République* (…) to warn them against the system of error employed against me. I owe it to them to warn and reassure them at a time when attempts are being made to discredit in their eyes one of those who fought for justice (…)”. The set is in good condition. * Urbain Gohier (1862–1951); French lawyer, journalist and pamphleteer; led a campaign for Dreyfus’s rehabilitation on military grounds whilst holding socialist, monarchist, nationalist and anti-Semitic convictions, defining himself as a ‘monarcho-syndicalist’ or ‘monarchist-syndicalist’. Initially close to Jaurès, he would later relentlessly denigrate and attack him through aggressive press campaigns. He was one of the propagators of the ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion’ in France. Expert report prepared by Mr Pascal GUILLEBAUD. Lot from a voluntary sale.
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Auction time 06/30/2026 at 2:00 PM
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