Autograph note signed ("Pr. Mérimée, sénateur").
N. p., 4. I. 1854.
Oblong 8vo. ½ p.
€ 500,00
Written in response to a request by or on behalf of a destitute older woman named Mademoiselle Papin. Mérimée promises to "solicit the inexhaustible beneficence of the Emperor for her".
Named senator in 1853, Prosper Mérimée was close to Emperor Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie de Montijo.
Well preserved.
