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Vermot et Associés

580 - GUADELOUPE. SLAVERY. Letter dated October 24, 1870, autograph signed Étienne VACHEROT (1809-1897) Philosopher, Professor at the Sorbonne. He refused to take the oath in 1852 and was dismissed). Letter A.S., 3 pages 1st in-8°, to Fernand HEROLD. He intervenes on behalf of his relative Mr. Hardouin, former magistrate of the colonies (President of the Court of Guadeloupe), who was "a victim of his liberal and anti-slavery opinions at the time of the reaction which followed so closely the advent of the Republic. "For 15 or 20 years, under the previous government, he had been a judge of integrity, inflexible and unmoved by the advances and then the threats of certain colonists whose influence was dominant. He has become abhorred by this class of men for his firmness in rendering justice and having justice rendered to the blacks." "Mr Hardouin was struck down in the exercise of these functions at the beginning of Louis-Napoléon's Presidency." He is poor and condemned to inactivity.

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GUADELOUPE. SLAVERY. Letter dated October 24, 1870, autograph signed Étienne VACHEROT (1809-1897) Philosopher, Professor at the Sorbonne. He refused to take the oath in 1852 and was dismissed). Letter A.S., 3 pages 1st in-8°, to Fernand HEROLD. He intervenes on behalf of his relative Mr. Hardouin, former magistrate of the colonies (President of the Court of Guadeloupe), who was "a victim of his liberal and anti-slavery opinions at the time of the reaction which followed so closely the advent of the Republic. "For 15 or 20 years, under the previous government, he had been a judge of integrity, inflexible and unmoved by the advances and then the threats of certain colonists whose influence was dominant. He has become abhorred by this class of men for his firmness in rendering justice and having justice rendered to the blacks." "Mr Hardouin was struck down in the exercise of these functions at the beginning of Louis-Napoléon's Presidency." He is poor and condemned to inactivity.

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Auction details

History & Regions of France
Tuesday, November 24
12:00 PM
5, rue Drouot
75009 Paris, France

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Vermot et Associés +33 1 71 19 42 16 info@vermotetassocies.com
On Drouot for more than 10 years avec More than 220,000 lots published

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