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Anatole France

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Anatole France

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Auction Date:2012 Apr 18 @ 18:00 (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
French author (1844–1924) who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1921. ALS in French, two pages, 6.25 x 8.25, La Bechellerie, St.-Cyr-Sur-Loire, Indre & Loire letterhead, May 27, 1915. France writes to her “dear minister, my dear Albert Thomas,” translated, in part: “Allow me to forward to you (together with my warm regards and congratulations for your ‘Victory of the Projectiles’) the request of a good soldier, Louis Raux, who since the beginning of the war has been fighting in the trenches, and who was evacuated to a hospital because of a liver ailment, and placed on sick leave until the 12th of June. Although his is still very ill, he requests mobilization into a factory...I am presenting his request to you with the hope that you will look upon it favorably.” In very good condition, with central horizontal and vertical fold, one extending over the end of the signature, scattered creasing, light toning, a staple mark to the top left, a received stamp to the first page, and a few pieces of reparative tape to each page.