Jules TASCHEREAU Signed Autographed Letter Manuscript

  
Reorganizer of the National Library during the Second Empire, posterity has forgotten him in favor of his successor "due to his passionate character and ambition. Light tear on the left margin. I do not wish to see you because I am quite ashamed of my daily visits and because, moreover, the instructions you give every Sunday would keep you safe from me. But I am writing to you because a one-day delay could jeopardize the outcome of a request that my mother, who arrived from Tours two days ago, and I are very keen on. One of my former and best friends, with twenty-five years of service and twelve campaigns, a captain for thirteen years, wishes to join the mounted municipal guard. His name is Louis Bedouet, and he is the son-in-law of Mr. Bellanger from Tours, who served as mayor during the last revolution and was appointed as a prefectural councilor.