Antonin PROUST (1832-1905) journalist and politician, friend - Lot 75

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Antonin PROUST (1832-1905) journalist and politician, friend - Lot 75
Antonin PROUST (1832-1905) journalist and politician, friend of Manet, Prime Minister of Fine Arts (1881). 5 sheets of original pen-and-ink drawings, and L.A.S.; 5 pages in various formats, and 1 page in-8 headed Chambre des députés. Portrait of the Hellenist Auguste-François Maunoury (1811-1898) bent over his work table with a cap on his head, signed and dated "A.P. 1882" (12.5 x 18 cm on letterhead of the Chamber of Deputies). Portrait of Tallandier (the publisher ?; 1 p. in-8 on Chamber of Deputies letterhead). 3 drawings and notes made during a sitting at the National Assembly, with signature (1 p. in-4): 2 men's heads and an old man asleep in his chair, with notes: "Revisionist cabinet - Gambetta - universal suffrage - reform of the judiciary - one year's voluntary service" . Man's head in profile on an envelope from the Chamber of Deputies). Child's bust (on p. in-8) . 4 February 1881, to a fellow journalist, thanking him for his "very complimentary article" in France, read "yesterday evening on his way back from the Chamber, at the end of a session in which my colleagues were perhaps unfair to me"; he did not, however, reproach them: "I thought it might be useful to seek before the Chamber the most suitable procedure for preventing war and ensuring peace. I was wrong and it is always wrong to be wrong"....
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