[Auguste BARTHOLDI]. L.S. by 10 architects or artists, Marseille March 8, 1882, to the editor of Moniteur des Arts; 2 pages in-4. Protest against a statement by Bartholdi claiming "a share in the creation of the Palais de Longchamp in Marseille"; the signatories stress that the architect "is the sole author of the project for the Monument he built"... It is signed by the members of the Monument Commission: architects Léon Cahier, J. Letz, André Mouren, Adolphe Bousquet, G. Allar; painters Antoine Magaud and Raphaël Ponson, journalist Louis Brès, and by A. de Saint-Alary and Jules Cantin.