Auguste DIDE (1839-1918). French politician. Liberal, he wen - Lot 20

Auguste DIDE (1839-1918). French politician. Liberal, he went into exile in Switzerland during the Second Empire. After studying at the Protestant Faculty of Theology in Strasbourg, he became a pastor in the Gard region of France. He published La fin des religions, La légende chrétienne and Servet et Calvin. In 1885, he gave a premonitory speech on the separation of Church and State, ended his pastoral duties and joined the Droit Humain Masonic Lodge in Nice with his wife Noémie. - L.a.s. "Auguste Dide, pasteur protestant" Paris January 9, 1976, 2 pp. in-8 on the letterhead of the Église Réformée de Paris. He asks the historian to intervene with the Minister of Fine Arts on behalf of an elderly painter and former outlaw. 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, then 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