Auction Date:2010 Nov 10 @ 19:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
ALS in French, signed “A. Dreyfus,” one page, 4.5 x 6, no date (but bearing a pencil notation of “May 1908” in an unknown hand). Letter to the widow of Emile Zola, in full (translated): “Dear Madame and friend [male], I am sorry to learn that Sunday’s ceremony in Suresnes [West of Paris] is postponed to April 12. We had delayed until April 5 our departure to Italy, precisely to be able to attend by your side, but we cannot delay any longer because what would be the point of leaving then since we have to be back when school starts. We are going to Rome and to Naples to get a little rest and sunshine, however, be assured that our thoughts and heart will be with you on April 12. With fond memories to you both.” In fine condition.
Author Emile Zola wrote his famous open letter, ‘J’Accuse!,’ to champion Dreyfus’ unfair conviction. It is not surprising then that Dreyfus would have wanted to attended the unveiling of a bust of Zola in the Paris suburb—and had already altered his travel plans once to do just that—before finally having to send this message. Artist Emile Derre had cast the piece of art from bronze salvaged by the local council from the bells of a disused church. By not attending, Dreyfus missed a highly charged and heavily policed inaugural ceremony that viewed it as being an anticlerical and antimilitary gesture. A month later, as Dreyfus attended a ceremony in which Zola's remains were transferred to the Pantheon, where France's greatest citizens are interred, he was wounded in a failed assassination attempt by a disgruntled journalist.
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