PÉTAIN PHILIPPE (1857-1951) MARÉCHAL,CHEF DE L'ÉTAT FRANÇAIS

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PÉTAIN PHILIPPE (1857-1951) MARÉCHAL,CHEF DE L'ÉTAT FRANÇAIS
L.S. and L.A.S., 1919-1939; 1 page in-4 typewritten on letterhead Grand Quartier Général des Armées françaises de l'Est. le Maréchal de France Commandant en Chef, and 2 pages oblong in-12 on letterhead Le Maréchal Pétain with envelope. To G.G.G. October 22, 1919, to a President. "You have kindly transmitted to me the motion voted by the Pathfinders of France, at their General Assembly of October 12, 1919. I was very sensitive to the sentiments it expresses, and I address to you, as well as to all the Pathfinders, my warmest thanks"... - Hendaye] May 22, 1939, to General Jules Decamp, on the subject of the promotion to the rank of Commander of the Legion of Honor of Charles Ginisty, bishop of Verdun, on the occasion of the jubilee of his priesthood: he thanks the good news transmitted by Daladier: "I ask Gal Boichut, who was in Verdun at the beginning of the war, to give the tie to Mgr Ginisty"... He himself had just returned from Madrid, where on Friday he had witnessed a remarkable parade [Franco's victory]: "It is a credit to the staff who organized it and to the troops who carried it out. Meeting every day disheveled troops in the streets, I could not imagine that they could present themselves so correct in their dress and in their appearance"... 2 press photographs are attached, representing Marshal Pétain and other personalities at the inauguration of the monument to the French soldiers of the 33rd R.I., on September 11, 1927 in Dinant, with on the back long dedications-commentaries of Marguerite Blanckaert, Brussels woman condemned to death by the Germans in 1916.
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