[CLEMENCEAU] Violette MAXCE(1872-1958, British Woman of the - Lot 387

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[CLEMENCEAU] Violette MAXCE(1872-1958, British Woman of the - Lot 387
[CLEMENCEAU] Violette MAXCE(1872-1958, British Woman of the World, daughter of Admiral Maxce, she married Lord Edward Cecil, son of a Prime Minister of Queen Victoria and, widowed in 1918, remarried Lord Alfred Milner; Admiral Maxce was a close friend ofGeorges CLEMENCEAU, and the latter maintained with Violette a "tender friendship", Poincaré relates that Clemenceau had confided to him about Lord Milner: "he's an old friend, we admire and love the same woman, it's an indissoluble bond") / Autograph letter signed in pencil, 3 p in-8, headed "Ministère de la Guerre - Secrétariat particulier du Ministre", toGénéral Henri MORDACQ(1868-1943, then head of Clemenceau's military cabinet at the Ministère de la Guerre): Violette had come all the way to the Ministry of War to ask for news of Clemenceau, but not finding General Mordacq, she left him a note written on the spot, at the Ministry, "I was not surprised thatM. Clemenceau had broken a rib, [...] I hope he will be able to take a long, quiet vacation, and I hope he will be able to do so now. For those of us who are devoted to it, it seems too painful for him to die in harness. I wish he'd take a good rest by the sea and write a book! He was talking about writing a book on the Government of Men".
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