FRENCH HISTORY -- 19th/20th CENTURY. A collection of approximately 28 autograph letters signed, and four typed letters signed by politicians, statesman and generals, mostly Paris, 1868-1974, the signatories including: Léon GAMBETTA (to an unidentified correspondent on the electoral campaign, 1872); Jules FAVRE (to a godson on his father's death,1868); Léon BLUM ('Je suis convaincu que les cas de maternité hors le mariage iront sans cesse en augmentant dans la société bourgeoise ... J'applaudis particulièrement à l'idée -- nouvelle pour moi -- de faire de toute mère une "Madame" devant la loi'); Marshal [Hubert] LYAUTEY, 'votre fidèle ami Lyautey', to a friend when Divisional General at Oran, 1909); Pierre CAMBON (as ambassador to London, asking for a passport for Madame Ménard-Dorian [a well known Dreyfusard and said to be the inspiration for Proust's Madame Verdurin], 1915); Georges CLEMENCEAU (recommending a candidate for the directorship of the Opera); Jean JAURÈS (as deputy for the Tarn, recommending a former pupil to a procurator); Georges MANDEL (colleague of Clemenceau, arrested in 1940 on Laval's orders and sent to Buchenwald with Blum); Pierre LAVAL (signature on a decree issued as Minister of Labour,1930); Edgar FAURE; Maurice SCHUMANN; General [Maurice] WEYGAND, to the President sending a copy of his memoirs (1950); others including Henri Rochefort, Jules Simon, Charles Rémusat, Louise Michel (anarchist), Jules Ferry (on the promotion of public libraries), Marcel Cachin, Joseph Cailloux, Jules Cambon, Marcel Déat (socialist, support of Pétain and Laval), Théophile Delcassé, Anatole de Monzie, Georges Bidault, Jacques Chaban-Delmas (letter of condolence to the daughter of the composer Gustave Samazeuilh), Louis Barthou, Edouard Herriot, Pierre Messmer, Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, with a letter in French by Antonio de Oliveira Salazar (to Jean de La Varende, 1959); autograph envelopes and photographs.