CLERGY. AUTOGRAPHS OF BISHOPS. 25 letters (L.A.S. or L.S.) o - Lot 74

CLERGY. AUTOGRAPHS OF BISHOPS. 25 letters (L.A.S. or L.S.) or documents signed by bishops: Henri Ignace de BRANCAS, Bishop of Lisieux. Document signed on his letterhead in 1741 + Dominique Frédéric DUFOUR de PRADT, Bishop of Poitiers, later Archbishop of Mechelen. Document signed on his letterhead in Poitiers in 1808 + Charles François D’AVIAU DU BOIS DE SANZAY, Archbishop of Bordeaux. Letter A.S. Bordeaux 1820 + Paul Thérèse David d’ASTROS, Bishop of Bayonne. Letter A.S., Bayonne, 1821 + Michel III PONCET DE LA RIVIÈRE, Bishop of Angers; letter signed in Angers, 1723 + Jean Baptiste de BOUILLÉ, Bishop of Poitiers. Letter A.S. 1827 + Philippe François SAUZIN, Bishop of Blois; Letter A.S. Blois 1829 + François Jean Hyacinthe FEUTRIER, Count-Bishop of Beauvais, Minister. 2 Autograph letters from Beauvais, 1826, and Paris, 1828, signed by Jean Louis Simon LEMERCIER, Bishop of Beauvais, Letter from Beauvais, 1834 + Jean Baptiste BOUVIER, Bishop of Le Mans, Letter from Le Mans, 1840 + Jean Joseph De COSNAC, Bishop of Meaux, then Archbishop of Sens. Letter signed in Sens, 1842 + Antoine de SALINIS, Bishop of Amiens; Letter A.S. dated August 26 (period 1849–1856) + Félix DUPANLOUP, Bishop of Orléans, Senator, Member of the Académie Française, 2 letters signed in Orléans in 1855 and undated + Augustin HACQUARD, Bishop of Verdun. 2 autograph letters, 1880 and 1882 + Odon THIBAUDIER, Bishop of Soissons and Laon, later Archbishop of Cambrai. Letter A.S., Soissons, 1885, plus Victor Lucien LÉCOT, Archbishop of Bordeaux, Bishop Emeritus of Dijon, made a cardinal in 1893. Letter A.S. from Dijon, July 25, 1890 + Louis ROBERT, Bishop of Marseille. Letter A.S. dated June 6, 1894 + Jean Victor Émile CHESNELONG, Archbishop of Sens. Postcard from Sens, 1914, and letter-card + Georges GRENTE, Bishop of Le Mans. 6 postcards and 2 letter-cards from 1921 to 1935.