Anatole de la FORGE (1820-1892). French journalist and polit - Lot 29

Anatole de la FORGE (1820-1892). French journalist and politician. Republican. Wrote for Le Siècle. In 1870, he joined Gambetta in Tours. Replaced Henri Martin at the Ligue des Patriotes. Deputy for the Seine. - L.a.s. "Anatole de la Forge" Paris April 15, 1862 one page in-8. To Henri Martin to inform him that he is going to Dordrecht to attend the inauguration of the monument to the painter Ary SCHEFFER. - L.a.s. "Anatole de la Forge" Veules-en-Caux (Seine-Inf.) September 14, 1882, 2 pp. in-8 oblong. To Henri Martin, announcing that he has just obtained permission to adopt the daughter: "of a poor sailor who died suddenly two years ago..." whose literary works Victor Hugo, their beach neighbor, had just encouraged. 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