PERSIGNY (Jean Gilbert Victor Fialin, Viscount, Count, and l - Lot 651

PERSIGNY (Jean Gilbert Victor Fialin, Viscount, Count, and later Duke of) 1808–1872—Member of the National Assembly, Senator, Minister of the Interior—Letter from A.S. to the Editor of the newspaper *LA PATRIE*. 3 pages, in-8° (circa 1850): This Friday evening, “I have just seen the article in *La Patrie* about Prince Murat... I wrote the retraction myself, in my own hand, under the Emperor’s dictation. I cannot accept that an article of this importance be altered in this way. I therefore ask you to have it published in *LE CONSTITUTIONNEL* verbatim: “We have learned that the Emperor, deeply dissatisfied with Prince MURAT’s letter, has written to him to express his disapproval...”