HANOTAUX (Gabriel). - Lot 107

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HANOTAUX (Gabriel). - Lot 107
HANOTAUX (Gabriel). Born in Beaurevoir (Aisne), 1853 - died in 1944. French historian, diplomat and politician, member of the Académie française, former Minister of Foreign Affairs. Autograph letter signed "G. Hanotaux", addressed to "Mon cher Bréjean". February 1, 1907. 1 page in-8, purple ink, on mourning paper. Interesting letter in which Gabriel Hanotaux instructs his correspondent to convey his thanks to the orientalist Victor Houdas, whose "invaluable indications" of his work on Arabic manuscripts he emphasizes. He also expressed his interest in reading his work on Islam. This document is fully in keeping with Hanotaux's intellectual and political preoccupations with colonial issues and relations between France and the Muslim world. It bears witness to the exchanges between scholars, diplomats and orientalists at the beginning of the 20th century, at a time when knowledge of Islam was of strategic importance in French politics.
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