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NAPOLÉON III (1808-1873) Empereur

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NAPOLÉON III (1808-1873) Empereur

AUTHORIZED NOTES and MANUSCRIPTS in part autographed for his Histoire de Jules César, [circa 1865]| 12 and a half pages in-fol. and 1 page in-8, including 5 entirely autographed and 6 by several secretaries with numerous autograph additions and corrections by the Emperor| the set also includes 8 pencil sketches (some edges trimmed with loss of letters).
Working manuscripts for his Histoire de Jules César.
[With a group of scholars and writers including Victor Duruy, Louis-Alfred Maury, Prosper Mérimée or Louis-Félicien Caignart de Saulcy,
Napoleon III wrote this Histoire de Jules César, two volumes of which were published during his lifetime (1865-1866)| the third was completed by Eugène Stoffel (1887). If the apologetic approach in favour of the imperial regime is very clearly stated in the preface, the scientific value of the historical work carried out is remarkable].
Autograph notes on the censors Lepidus and Fulvius, according to the Roman History of Livy (Book XL, chap. 51) .
Autograph primitive version of the conclusion of the introductory chapter: "At last Rome is constituted by the Kings with its seeds of greatness and its seeds of death. Man created the institutions. We will see how the institutions as they developed created men" ("Rome under the Kings", t. I, p. 22) .
Autograph chronology elements, following the Rome calendar: "C. Gracchus - 631. Jugurtha - 648. Marius - 1st consulate - 647", etc.
(Book I, chap. 6, "Les Gracques, Marius et Sylla", t. I, pp. 201 ff.).
Autograph notes on the Roman History of Dion Cassius, with references...
Largely striped copy with important autograph additions: primitive version of a passage on Pompey. "He was then Consul-designate and his promises aroused the greatest enthusiasm, for it was the venality of the senators in their judicial functions that made the people long for the re-establishment of the Tribune with all its ancient privileges. Excesses and abuses