Bidspirit auction | DUMAS ALEXANDRE Pere: (1802-1870)

DUMAS ALEXANDRE Pere: (1802-1870) - DUMAS ALEXANDRE Pere: (1802-1870) French Writer whose works include The Three Musketeers . A.L.S., ` Al. Dumas´ , one page, 8vo, n.p., n.d., to his editor Monsieur Alexandre Cadot, in French. The letter bears an embossed crowned monogramme with his initials to the upper left corner. Dumas instructs his editor to send to Princess Mathilde two copies of two of his works and get paid for them, stating ` Envoyez donc à la Princesse Mathilde à St-Gratien avec factures un exemplaire de la Régence et Louis XV et un exemplaire Louis XVI et la Révolution. Elle me demande à les acheter...´ (Translation: ” Send Princess Mathilde in St-Gratien, along with invoices , a copy of ”The Regency and Louis XV” and a copy of ”Louis XVI and the Revolution.” She asks me to buy them. ...”) With blank integral leaf. Overall creasing, mostly to the right corners, otherwise G Princess Mathilde Bonaparte (1820-1904) Princess of San Donato. Daughter of Jerome Bonaparte, niece of Napoleon I and cousin of Napoleon III. She used to host a salon in her castle of Saint-Gratien, close to Paris, where she gathered a circle of famous writers and artists there and profoundly marked the city with her patronage. Every summer, she hosts major figures in the arts and literature such as Gustave Flaubert, Théophile Gautier or Turgenev.