Null HUGO (Victor) - Napoléon le petit. Amsterdam, J. Stemvers et Cie, Libraires…

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HUGO (Victor) - Napoléon le petit. Amsterdam, J. Stemvers et Cie, Libraires-Éditeurs, 1853; small in-12, 284 pp, half-plum cloth binding, smooth spine, speckled edges. First edition of this famous pamphlet that earned Victor Hugo several years of exile. Consultant : Mr. Philippe HENRY

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HUGO (Victor) - Napoléon le petit. Amsterdam, J. Stemvers et Cie, Libraires-Éditeurs, 1853; small in-12, 284 pp, half-plum cloth binding, smooth spine, speckled edges. First edition of this famous pamphlet that earned Victor Hugo several years of exile. Consultant : Mr. Philippe HENRY

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FRANCE - CINQ NOUVEAUX FRANCS VICTOR HUGO, type 1959. February 4, 1960 - SPL

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Two Autograph letters addressed to Victor Hugo. Victor HUGO.Louis-Napoléon-Loetitia-Charles de Ladoucette, Baron. Autograph letter addressed to Victor Hugo.21 June 1846. One sheet in large 8vo mm. 210x175. Text on one page. Clear cursive handwriting, brown ink. Very good condition. "Monsieur le Vicomte, et tres honore Collegue." The deputy and prefect, perpetual secretary of the Societe Philotechnique, writes to Victor Hugo as secretary of the commission for the equestrian statue of Joan of Arc to be erected in Orléans. He asks his 'very honorable' colleague for the amount of his contribution. The bronze statue will then be created by the neo-classical sculptor Denis Foyatier and placed in the Place du Martroi. Boudn with: Victor HUGO. VIRMAITRE, Claude. Autograph letter addressed to Victor Hugo.4 September 1846. 8vo. Text on two pages mm. 200x132. Clear cursive handwriting, brown ink. Very good condition. 'Ce qui pourroit etre tout a fait determinant serait un mot d'un ministre quelconque, et surtout de M. Dumon le Suzerain de le Chemin de fer.' Claude Virmaître, 1806?-1854, editor at the newspaper Le Corsaire and collaborator of Victor Hugo, asked the writer, then a Member of Parliament, for an intervention in order to obtain a post with the railways. He quotes Pierre Sylvain Dumon in this regard. 'the Sovereign of the Railways', Minister of Public Works from December 1843 to May 1847: having invested a large part of his personal fortune in the railway companies, in particular the Paris-Lyon-Mediterranean, he firmly opposed, as minister, the exploitation of the railways by the state; hostile to their nationalisation, he thus favored the monopoly of large companies.

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HUGO (Victor): Actes et Paroles (three volumes) - Avant l'Exil (1841-1851), Pendant l'exil (1852-1870), Depuis l'exil (1870-1876). Paris, Michel Lévy, 1875-1876. Three volumes. 15 by 23.5 cm. (4)-XLVIII-546; (4)-XLVIII-472;(4)-XLIV-355 pages. Paperback, in printed covers. Volume 1: paper missing from a corner of the second cover. Some scattered light foxing. Volume 2: spine broken, very small paper loss on second cover. Uncut. Some scattered light foxing. Volume 3: small paper loss at top of spine. Complete first edition on current paper of this great political work by Victor HUGO, here as issued. Each volume has an autograph letter signed by Victor HUGO, addressed to M. Louis ASSELINE. Mr. ASSELINE, a man of letters and radical republican, defender of the Libre Pensée, was a pupil of François HUGO, Victor's son, at the Lycée Charlemagne.

Current bid 24 EUR

PATURAUD Superb dedication on the album Victor Hugo Aux frontières de l'exil in very good condition

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