DUMAS (Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie, known as Alexandre) - Lot 91

DUMAS (Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie, known as Alexandre). Born in Villers-Cotterêts. 1802-1870. Writer, journalist. Manuscript A.S. "A.D.", entitled "Situation intérieure". S.l.n.d. (circa 1861). 5 1/2 pages in-4. Blue squared paper. MANUSCRIPT CONCERNING NEAPOLITAN POLITICS AND PUBLIC DEBT. ARTICLE FOR THE JOURNAL L'INDIPENDENTE, WHICH DUMAS HAD FOUNDED IN NAPLES ...As we said yesterday in our article on the Elections. The important thing is not that a minority is more or less compact, more or less tightly packed, more or less numerous, but that it is well represented... Focusing on the situation in Naples, he addresses...these few fighters for the Holy Cause..., indicating...we saw successively fall and we pushed them as best we could to their falls, the ministries conforti, and the lieutenancy farini each one of its best pretended that it governed while on the contrary it was with the one who would degoverate... Dumas emits doubts on this young political body and its way of governing. But ... perhaps in the midst of this ministerial mass which is counted on to boo or to applaud, perhaps there will be a few men who will be struck by the need to give reason to public concern, who will fear being accused of laziness or ignorance if they allow this great question of the Emancipation of ten million men to pass unexamined, and who, understanding the height of their mission, will show themselves, to the great astonishment of the Ministry, worthy of the mandate conferred upon them...To guard against any future accusations, Dumas undertakes to examine ...this serious question of domestic policy called Economy, a question on which Parliament will principally have to discuss... He therefore proposes to publish a few articles on the question, and begins at once with the Neapolitan public debt, so ...that everyone knows what is represented by the contribution and what will be charged in the successive allocation... Dumas traces the evolution of the debt between 1815 and 1832, giving details of the charges incumbent on it.Louis-Charles Farini [1812-1866] occupied the Ministry of the Interior for several months from March 1860. After Garibaldi's capture of the Two Sicilies and the outcome of Castelfidardo, Farini accompanied Victor Emmanuel to Naples, where he remained as the king's lieutenant.Raphaël Conforti [1808-after 1866] was elected deputy to the first Italian parliament and, in April 1862, joined the Rattazzi ministry as Minister of Justice.Alexandre Dumas stayed in Naples from 1861 to 1863. After Garibaldi's triumphal entry into Naples, Dumas was appointed by Garibaldi to the honorary post of Director of the Pompeii Museums and Excavations. He founded a newspaper, L'Indipendente, more Garibaldian than Garibaldi, whose mission was to root out the Bourbon weed. With Garibaldi gone, Dumas continued his fight against counter-revolution and the camorra. He began writing his monumental Histoire des Bourbons de Naples, as well as his Châtiments in the form of a novel, La San Felice, which, more than an anti-Bourbon pamphlet, became a hymn to the first Italian Republic.