Adolphe CRÉMIEUX, Isaac Moïse dit (1796-1880). French lawyer - Lot 18

Adolphe CRÉMIEUX, Isaac Moïse dit (1796-1880). French lawyer and politician. In 1870, he passed the decree that bears his name, granting French nationality to the Jews of Algeria. - L.a.s. "Ad. Crémieux" Bordeaux February 20, n.d., one page in-8, on Ministry of Justice letterhead. To pass on to Henri MARTIN, then people's representative, a letter he had just received from the lawyer and politician Emile Maugrer: "... he is a man of heart and merit, whom I like well. It seems to me, from what he writes to me, that you have esteem for him, which proves to me that I did well to give him mine". - L.a.s. "Ad. Crémieux" October 24 n.d. half a page on an in-8 sheet, small tear in margin. He asks her: "... for November 13 two center seats at your delightful reception...". Henri MARTIN (1810-1886). Republican and freethinker, he was editor-in-chief of Le Siècle. He was mayor of Paris's 16th arrondissement in 1870, and again from 1880 to 1883. Elected to the Académie française to replace Adolphe Thiers. - Set of documents concerning his teaching appointments, including a letter signed by Minister Hippolyte CARNOT appointing him to teach a course in modern history at the Faculté des lettres in Paris, in May 1848. - L.a.s. "H. Martin" Paris January 19 (1882) 2 pp. in-12. Short letter addressed to Léon GAMBETTA: "... You alone can pull us out of this crisis out of all proportion to its causes and so dangerous ... Yours sincerely. H. Martin. Provenance: - Estate of Henri MARTIN (1810-1886). - By descent to the present day