Autograph visiting card signed.
Visiting card format. 2 pp.
€ 120,00
Recommending the journalist and far-right activist André Gaucher to the unidentified recipient, possibly named Dumay, and promising to send more patriots: "Recevez Monsieur André Gaucher qui est de nos amis et a une proposition [...] à vous faire. Je m'occupe de vous envoyer des patriotes. Vous êtes un brave et un brave homme". The latter remark apparently alludes to Napoleon Bonaparte's words to general Joseph Marie Dessaix, whom he allegedly addressed as "un brave et un brave homme" after the Battle of Wagram in 1809, where Dessaix had sustained injuries.
André Gaucher (1876-1957), who is infamous for slapping the prefect of Vienne, Gaston Joliet, on 5 December 1905 during the so-called affair of the cards, publicly broke with the L'Action française and his former mentor Léon Daudet in 1921, without changing his far-right convictions. In a curious episode, the fervent antisemite Gaucher asked Sigmund Freud to comment on his scathing psychological portait of Daudet and published it, with Freud's largely positive response, under the title "L'Obsédé" in 1925.
On lithographed visiting card. With a vertical pinchfold.
