Jules FAVRE Signed autograph letter (3) Reflections on foreign policy

  
Jules FAVRE – Three signed autograph letters – Reflections on foreign policy.

Jules FAVRE (1809–1880), lawyer and politician; a staunch republican and a leading figure in the liberal and republican opposition to Napoleon III’s Empire.

A collection of three signed autograph letters by Jules Favre expressing his views on foreign policy.

Signed autograph letter, 1 page, octavo, to a “dear colleague”: concerning parliamentary proceedings and an amendment tabled by his correspondent.

Signed autograph letter, 2 pages, octavo, June 1866, to a “dear colleague”: he requests a right of reply in a newspaper owned by his correspondent and explains that his request to speak in the Chamber, alongside Thiers, stemmed from his wish to discuss France’s foreign policy in light of “the manifesto that had just shed such unexpected light on it.”

Signed autograph letter, 2¼ pages, octavo, written shortly before the Franco-Prussian War of 1870: an interesting letter in which he explains his political outlook: “Yes, governments have too often joined hands with despots, but their armies have carried throughout Europe that ardent love of equality… It is above all in this capacity that we have been the missionaries of their freedom.

That is why my heart bleeds all the more, why my dignity as a citizen is humiliated when I see a government that should faithfully express the will of the nation turn against its founding principle the weapons that our foolish trust has placed in its hands.”

Also included is a signed autograph letter by Jacob von Heeckeren tot Enghuizen (1792–1884), Dutch diplomat and Baron of the First French Empire, Paris, April 1815, 1 page, octavo.