Signed Autograph Letter by Henry Bordeaux

  

Autographed Letter Signed by Henry Bordeaux. 2 Autographed Business Cards signed by Henry Bordeaux, undated, one recto, the other recto-verso + draft of a signed letter, undated. 1 page in-8° format (21×13) in a biographical folder with a glued portrait. The three pieces are signed H.

From the former collection of A. Baron, an insurance agent, then a liquidator in Bourges. Henry Bordeaux, born on January 25, 1870 in Thonon-les-Bains and died on March 29, 1963 in Paris, was a French lawyer, novelist, and essayist, originally from Savoie.

Henry Bordeaux came from a Catholic and royalist family, which he notably describes in "La Maison" (1912) and in "Le Pays sans ombre" (1935). His childhood was particularly influenced by the hope of the "Count of Chambord" ascending to the throne.

Henry Bordeaux's political ideas, which evolved over time and in his writings, were close to the social Catholicism of Frédéric le Play or Albert de Mun, political intermediaries in the Church's reconciliation with the Republic. On the eve of the war, he undertook a trip to Germany which allowed him to see what Germany had become, under the influence of the national-socialist ideology. He lucidly portrayed the new Germany, astonished by its recovery and disapproving of the new power's control over minds. The end of World War II, however, marked a turning point in Henry Bordeaux's career as he had supported Marshal Pétain, a friend since the First World War.