Briand, Herriot

Set of 19 autograph business cards addressed to Victor Margueritte, novelist and playwright, author of La Garçonne. Most thank Victor Margueritte for sending one of his works. Two cards are dated or datable: that of Frau Gerhart Hauptmann (May 28, 1932) and that of Count Louis de Blois, who cites the volume Debout les vivants, published in 1932. The collection brings together six Presidents of the Council of the Third Republic and a President of the Republic: - Aristide Briand: 3 cards, including one in his capacity as Minister of Foreign Affairs. - Édouard Herriot: 4 cards, including one as President of the Council and Foreign Affairs Minister. Two addressed personally to Margueritte, one describing his play as “magnificent.” - Paul Deschanel: mourning card, text on recto and verso, initialed. - André Tardieu: deputy for the Territory of Belfort, former minister. - Camille Chautemps: deputy of Loir-et-Cher. - Georges Leygues: deputy of Lot-et-Garonne, initialed. - Fernand Bouisson: President of the Chamber of Deputies. In addition the cards of: - Anatole de Monzie: deputy for Lot. - James Hennessy: senator for Charente. - Jean Hennessy: deputy for Charente, French ambassador. - Georges Scapini: deputy for Paris. - Henry Bérenger: French ambassador, senator, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee; mourning card, initialed. - Count Louis de Blois: senator for Maine-et-Loire. - Frau Gerhart Hauptmann: wife of the German writer Gerhart Hauptmann. Text in German, dated Bad Eilsen. Six cards bear a signature: Leygues, Deschanel, Bérenger and three Herriot cards. The others are not signed. - Dimensions: the largest: 10.5 x 6.6 cm; the smallest: 8.2 x 5.6 cm - Condition: Good overall preservation. See photos for more details. - Aristide Briand, born March 28, 1862 in Nantes and died March 7, 1932 in Paris, was a lawyer and French politician. Wikipedia - Édouard Herriot, born July 5, 1872 in Troyes and died March 26, 1957 in Saint-Genis-Laval, was a statesman and French politician. A member of the Radical Party, he was a prominent figure of the Third Republic. A central figure of the Cartel des Gauches, he served as Prime Minister of the Council of Ministers three times. Wikipedia - Paul Deschanel, born February 13, 1855 in Schaerbeek and died April 28, 1922 in Paris, was a statesman, journalist and French writer, President of the Republic from February 18 to September 21, 1920. He was born during the exile of his father, Émile Deschanel, writer and opponent of Napoléon III. Wikipedia - André Tardieu, born September 22, 1876 in Paris and died September 15, 1945 in Menton, was a journalist and French statesman. A moderate Republican, he was deputy of Seine-et-Oise from 1914 to 1924 and then of the Territory of Belfort from 1926 to 1931. Wikipedia - Camille Chautemps, born February 1, 1885 in Paris and died July 1, 1963 in Washington, D.C., was a French statesman. He served several times as President of the Council of Ministers under the Third Republic. Wikipedia - Georges Leygues, born October 26, 1857 in Villeneuve-sur-Lot and died September 2, 1933 in Saint-Cloud, was a French politician. Wikipedia - Fernand Bouisson, born June 16, 1874 in Constantine and died December 28, 1959 in Antibes, was a French statesman, President of the Chamber of Deputies from 1927 to 1936 and Prime Minister for a few days in 1935. Wikipedia - Anatole de Monzie, born in Bazas on November 22, 1876 and died in Paris on January 11, 1947, was a French politician. Republican-socialist then socialist, he was notably Minister of Finance and of National Education during the interwar period. Wikipedia - James Richard Charles Hennessy, born July 26, 1867 in Cherves-de-Cognac and died May 16, 1945 in Paris, is a naval officer, horseman, cognac trader and French politician. Wikipedia - Jean Patrick Hennessy, born April 26, 1874 in Cherves-Richemont and died November 4, 1944 in Lausanne, is a French diplomat and politician from a prominent cognac-producing family. He founded, in 1933, a short-lived Social-National Party. Wikipedia - Georges Scapini, born October 4, 1893 in Paris X and died March 25, 1976 in Cannes, is a lawyer, a veteran affairs figure and a French politician, blind since a wound in 1915. Wikipedia - Henry Bérenger, born April 22, 1867 in Rugles and died May 18, 1952 in Nice, was a French politician. He was a Senator for Guadeloupe from 1912 to 1940, according to a power-sharing arrangement well established with deputy Gratien Candace from 1912 to 1938. Wikipedia - Victor Margueritte, born December 1, 1866 in Blida and died March 23, 1942 in Monestier, was a French novelist and dramatist. Wikipedia Carefully packed in a rigid and waterproof box.

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