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TALLEYRAND-PERIGORD, Charles Maurice de (1754-1838). French statesman.
Autograph Letter Signed ('pce talleyrand'), to Mr Colmache at the HÔtel Talleyrand in Paris, 1 page 4to with address-leaf bearing postmarks and red wax seal, Langeais, 6 December 1836.
Instructing him to purchase two copies of the works of Camille Desmoulins from the bookseller in rue des Maturins and to have them half-bound, announcing that he will be returning to Paris shortly, though the precise date is not yet settled, and asking him in a postscript to see the head of the consulate about the sum granted in New York to Mr de la Forest regarding 'mon ennuyeuse affaire' and to urge him to speed matters to a prompt conclusion.
Provenance: from a collection formed by A.M. Broadley in 1903.
[No: 24938]

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