Louis BLANC (1811-1882), journalist and historian, member of the provisional government of 1848 and deputy under the Third Republic. Set of two signed autograph letters. The first, addressed from London on June 5, 1869, to a "dear compatriot" concerning changes to be made to a text: "You can replace the sentence that would frighten boarding school mistresses with the following lines: "it was to condemn poetry [and above] wouldn't it be, to a kind of moral impotence..." One page in-4, in brown ink. The second addressed from Paris, 96 rue de Rivoli, February 27, 1875, to a friend, accompanying a shipment of autographs "I am sending you five autographs: one from the heroic Barbès - another, from the great English thinker, John Stuart Mill - a third, from Sir Charles Dilke, the first member of England's House of Commons to declare himself a republican - a fourth, from Saffi, the former Roman triumvir - the last, from Crémieux. I would have liked to send you others, but the ones I have left are of an intimate nature". one page 1/3 in-4, in brown ink.