Autograph Letter, signed “Louis Blanc”

by Louis Blanc

$150 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

1 p. pen and ink on folded sheet of mourning stationery. 8vo. Creased from prior folding, mounted at left margin. Item #263271 “Je voudrais qu’il dépendit de moi que l’acquisition de votre oeuvre fût faite par M. Nicholas Thierry …” Blanc 1811-1882 was a French socialist politician and historian who favored radical reform. With a contemporary engraved portrait of Blanc.

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