Autograph letter signed.
8vo. 1 p. on single leaf.
€ 180,00
Interesting letter to a friend, addressed as "maître", asking him to take the witness stand in a court case involving the "Couvent des Oiseaux", a Parisian boarding school for girls: "J'espèrais que l'affaire du couvent des Oiseaux se terminerait par un arrêt de Mr Cier [?], mais le parquet en a décidé autrement. Nous sommes assignés à comparaitre Vendredi prochain devant la 6 chambre. Je n'ai plus votre lettre, que le juge d'instruction a gardé. Voudriez-vous m'en écrire un autre, ou, mieux encore, consentir à vous laisser assigner comme témoin? Vous me rendriez un si grand service, et je vous en serais très reconnaissant [...]".
1861 was the year of the foundation of Le Temps, a daily newspaper, which ran successfully until its discontinuation caused by the German occupation of France. Nefftzer was one of the co-founders of the paper and worked as editor-in-chief and publisher of Le Temps until 1870, when the Franco-Prussian War complicated his reconciliatory position towards Germany. Today, Nefftzer is considered a pioneer of Franco-German relations. In 1944 Le Monde was founded at Charles de Gaulle's request to succeed Le Temps as newspaper of record.
On stationery with lithographed letterhead of "Le Temps". With traces of former mounting.
