Autograph letter signed.
8vo. ½ p. on bifolium with autograph address.
€ 150,00
To the lawyer and politician Eugène Aroux (1793-1859) in Rouen, informing him that he can't visit him in his office due to his occupations and inviting him over instead: "Ne pouvant, à cause de mes occcupations, aller voir Mr. E. Aroux à son cabinet, je le prie d'avoir la bonté de passer chez moi aujourd'hui, à sa sortée du palais." - Then deputy for Gard, Teste would hold several ministerial positions from 1834. In 1840 he was named Minister of Public Works, which he remained until 1843. For his removal from the government by François Guizot, Teste was compensated with high juridical offices and the peerage of France. In 1847 the so-called Teste-Cubières scandal erupted. The retired general and temporary Minister of War in 1839 and 1840 Amédée Despans-Cubières had bribed Jean-Baptiste Teste to get the minister's approval for the renewal of the concession for a salt mine at Gouhenans. Teste's involvement came to light during a trial in 1847 involving Despans-Cubière's associates and he was subsequently tried and convicted to three years in prison and a fine amounting to the sum of the bribe.
Minimally stained.
