Gabriel HANOTAUX (1853-1944) historian and minister. Autograph manuscript signed, Hommage à la Russie ; 2pages in-8. After the Russian victories in Bukovina and Galicia, Hanotaux explains "the two sides of Russian greatness: firmness in setbacks, élan in victory [...] A Russian fears neither time nor death [...] The Slavic soul, with all its mysterious and nobly idealistic qualities, will be an excellent worker for civilization. [...] Russia, torn from the German intellectual yoke, is an immense sea where future beauties will be born"...