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MERMOZ Jean
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175
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MERMOZ Jean
See original version (French)
Estimate €700 - €800
Voluntary lot
Description
MERMOZ Jean
L.A.S. ‘Your Jean’, Santiago de Chile, 20 November [1928], to his grandparents, the GILLETs in Mainbressy; on the back of a photographic postcard (Museo Nacional, Santiago), address.
‘From Santiago de Chile, where I have just arrived on the first France–Chile postal service in nine days, having crossed the Andes at an altitude of 5,500 metres, I send you a thousand warm kisses’…
Enclosed is a postcard sent to the same recipients, Rio de Janeiro, 7 December [1928] (view of Pão de Açúcar, address and postmarks): “A thousand warm kisses, Mermoz”.
Provenance: - Jean Mermoz (1901–1936);
- Gabrielle Gillet-Mermoz (1880–1955);
- Passed down through the family
See original version (French)
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