DUFAURE (Jules Armand Stanislas). - Lot 100

DUFAURE (Jules Armand Stanislas). Saujons (Charente-Inférieure), 1798–1881. French lawyer and politician. Minister of the Interior, then Minister of Justice. Member of the Académie Française (elected in 1863). Close associate of Adolphe Thiers. Autograph letter signed “J. Dufaure” to Liouville. No place, December 16, 1871. 1 page, in-8. A short, practical letter, written in the early years of the Third Republic, in which Jules Dufaure returns a volume to his correspondent and asks him to have some forgotten papers delivered to his servant. A modest document illustrating the daily correspondence of a great statesman at the height of his career, shortly after the events of 1870–1871.