LAS CASES (Pons-Emmanuel de), who followed his father to Sai - Lot 503

LAS CASES (Pons-Emmanuel de), who followed his father to Saint Helena and served there as secretary to Napoleon I; A deputy from Finistère in 1830, he returned to Saint Helena with the Prince de Joinville to retrieve the Emperor’s ashes. – Letter A.S. from Paris on February 18, 1834, to Mr. César MOREAU, founder of the French Statistical Society… 1p in-4° (reinforced at the fold). He asks him to commission, at his own expense, a gold medal and a silver medal for “the two best papers submitted to the Society on the Department of FINISTÈRE ... ” + Enclosed: Autograph letter to Mr. Clément, quaestor of the Chamber of Deputies—1 p., in-8°—July 22, 1840—1 p., in-8°

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