JAURÈS, Jean. Signed autograph letter in ink, together with origonal portrait photo.

£300 · Offered by Henry Sotheran Ltd

Signed

JAURÈS, Jean. Signed autograph letter in ink, together with origonal portrait photo. [ Paris : c. 1898]. Tow pages, c. 18 by 11 cm, one horizontal fold, the photo (c. 13.5 by 10 cm) stamped on verso Henri Manuel and with traces of previous mounting; both items otherwise well preserved. The celebrated unorthodox Marxist, historian and socialist leader of France remains one of the main historical figures of the French Left. An antimilitarist and pacifist, he was assassinated by a militarist at the outbreak of World War One. He had collaborated with his friend Rosa Luxemburg, who shared his fate after the war and during the revolutions in Germany. The letter is about a friend procuring tickets to see Wagner's Siegfried with his wife. Tout Paris was ravaged by Wagner fever in the 1890s, not sparing socialists as him and Theodor Herzl. SKU: 2122130

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