AUXERRE - HOTEL DU LEOPARD - Owned by Alphonse BONARD (This - Lot 157

Lot n° 157
Go to lot
Estimation :
10 - 20 EUR
Bid on drouot.com
AUXERRE - HOTEL DU LEOPARD - Owned by Alphonse BONARD (This - Lot 157
AUXERRE - HOTEL DU LEOPARD - Owned by Alphonse BONARD (This establishment, founded in 1801 on Quai Conti—now Quai de la République—welcomed a prestigious clientele: Napoleon I, Murat, Stendhal, Queen Victoria... ; the serial writer Ponson du Terrail features Bonard at the Hôtel du Léopard in his “Bohémienne du grand Monde”) / Signed autograph letter, 1 p. in-8 plus address page, Auxerre, May 19 [1840s], to the police commissioner: A most curious letter, “Two gentlemen have just arrived at my hotel: one is Mr. Lefaucheux, whose son is in Poland, and Mr. Espinasse of Bordeaux, arriving from Poland, a friend of the unfortunate Yung, who was killed right beside him and whose last breath he witnessed. This young man had come to visit his friend’s family, but they are in Chatel[?], and these gentlemen are obliged to leave tonight for Poland tomorrow evening.”
My orders
Sale information
Sales conditions
Return to catalogue