BARANTE, Amable-Guillaume-Prosper Brugière, baron de (1782-1866), French statesman and historian.
Two autograph letters signed (‘Barante’) to M. Bajot and an unnamed recipient.
Paris, 14 January [no year] and [n.p.] 4 May 1861.
Two bifolia; I: pp. 1 + 2 blank + address on last page, remains of blue seal, lightly foxed, creases where folded, later note regarding Barante to foot of first page; II: pp. 2 + 2 blank, creases where folded; good.
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Two autograph letters signed (‘Barante’) to M. Bajot and an unnamed recipient.
Two autograph letters from the French peer and historian Barante. The first, addressed to Monsieur Bajot, editor of the Annales Maritimes, asks him to send numbers he is missing for this year. The second, written to an unidentified ‘monsieur et honoré confrère’ on the encouragement of Monsieur Montalembert, asks the recipient to change the time or date of a meeting at the Académie Française which he does not want to miss.
Barante served as ambassador to Turin and St Petersburg, being elected to the Académie for his great literary and historical work, the Histoire des ducs de Bourgogne de la maison de Valois.
