Lot n° 114
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1200 - 1500
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LYAUTEY (Hubert) (1854-1934). - Lot 114
LYAUTEY (Hubert) (1854-1934).
Important friendly correspondence of 42 documents.
Set consisting of 22 signed autograph letters, ca. 60 p., mainly in-8° format (some large in-4°); 15 signed autograph cards, 21 p. in-12°; 5 signed autograph business cards, 5 p. in-16° format; 4 autograph letters signed by André Lucien Vacher, 14 p. ½ various formats, a telegram, a speech as well as two brochures (on the Lyautey Foundation and on the International Colonial Exhibition in Paris)
Interesting friendly correspondence addressed to his friend André Lucien Vacher (general) beginning in November 1903, the last letter dated March 7, 1934. This correspondence is kept in an album, and begins with a postcard acquired during the International Colonial Exhibition in 1931 (card addressed to "Mr and Me Vacher" in Marseille) and represents a "Portrait Maréchal Lyautey" by Philip de Laszlo. The letters are arranged in chronological order, captioned and transcribed in pencil. Some letters have traces of tape on the folds, have tears, some lack of paper out of text. Lyautey in these letters gives an account of French colonial policy, as well as her private life and health. André Lucien Vacher was one of her most "faithful friends"" ... you and I speak the same language".
On November 3, 1903, he let his annoyance and amazement show through "... Your letter saddens me and I do not understand it - how can you say that "my faithful have the right to doubt my promises..." you who saw me in
Marseilles and who know better than anyone else under what conditions I was sent here... and despite my efforts to evade it. And you'd say even less if you saw the situation I'm in, hanging on by a thread... "On December 13, 1904, he thanked Vacher for his letter, which gave him new hope "... what a pleasure it gives me to hear what you say about the attachment that many of you still have for me... after a year, I feel every day how little the exclusively military, rigid, exclusive, anti-colonial, regimental menta
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