Benjamin VALLOTTON (1877–1962, Swiss journalist and writer, - Lot 207

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Benjamin VALLOTTON (1877–1962, Swiss journalist and writer, - Lot 207
Benjamin VALLOTTON (1877–1962, Swiss journalist and writer, cousin of the painter Félix Vallotton) / Postcard written and signed in his own hand, from Lausanne, April 15, 1916, to the Swiss writer Julie de Mestral-Combremont; the postcard, illustrated by Charles Gogler, was sold to benefit the “Swiss Romandy Fund for Blind French Soldiers”: “I am happy that Potterat [a character—a jovial, good-natured Vaud police commissioner created by Benjamin Vallotton in one of his novels, with whom he identifies] —our humble people—who love France so much and live day by day with its anxieties and hopes, is loved a little by her. He deserves it. Hasn’t he just raised 140,000 francs for the blind soldiers of France and the small nations trampled underfoot by the Barbarian? And he did it so wholeheartedly, with such lovely words. But how ugly what’s happening at the top is! Ugh!..."
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