SECOND EMPIRE. 29 letters, most of them L.A.S.,... - Lot 286 - Ader

SECOND EMPIRE. 29 letters, most of them L.A.S., 1841-[1893]; interleaved in a sheet copy of Octave Aubry's Le Second Empire (Fayard, 1938), intended for binding, in a brown basane reader with imperial arms (used; edges of qqs letters a little frayed). Adolphe Thiers, François Guizot, James de Rothschild, Napoleon III (2 l.s., an "LN Bonaparte"), Marshal Magnan (2), Duke de Tascher de La Pagerie (House of the Empress), Marie-Jean-Pierre-Hubert de Cambacérès, Princess Mathilde, Achille Fould, Marshal Vaillant, C. de Villette, Viscount Justinien Clary, Georges Haussmann (2), Countess Walewska, Countess Cowley, Cardinal François-Nicolas Morlot Archbishop of Paris, Victor de Persigny, L. de Gramont (2), Charles Gounod, Édouard Drouyn de Lhuys, Charles de Lavallette, Adolphe Vuitry, Eugène Stoffel, Adélaïde Le Breton; most are addressed to André Randouin (1795-1871, administrator and prefect). Plus invitation cards to Napoleon III's wedding, an evening at the Tuileries, and a banquet menu.