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DUMAS PÈRE Alexandre. (1802-1870).

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DUMAS PÈRE Alexandre (1802-1870).
4 autograph manuscripts (or fragments), 3 signed "A.D", [ca. 1860-1862]| 2pages in-8 and 7 pages in-4 on blue paper.
Short articles for his Neapolitan newspaper L'Indipendente, where they were translated into Italian.
Le Chevalier d'Avalos (1 p. in-4): about the Chevalier d'Avalos's arrest in April 1861: "For us, let's repeat it, an arrest is only a brutal fact that proves nothing"....
Fragment relating to a Bourbon plot in Naples, and news of the arrest of the Chevalier d'Avalos, a presumed plotter (in favor of Lucien Murat) and a request from President of the Council Ratazzi to General Wysocki inviting him to dissolve the Polish school in Cuneo for the sake of Russia (2 p. and a half in-4).
Il Municipio (half-page in-4), about the municipalities of Naples and Florence. Two remnants of wax seals show that a press clipping was to be pasted after this introductory text. "To our readers and subscribers in Salerno" (1/2 p. in-4): "We find among the letters of Captain Trowbridge one of Nelson's lieutenants, a very ardent counter-revolutionary, commanding the blockade fleet in the Admiral's absence the following letter from one of your countrymen" (the letter in question has been detached).
La Grèce (half-page in-4), presentation of an article by Louis Mery, "brother of the poet" (the pasted article is missing).
Lascivia di Sangue (2 p. in-8): "We said yesterday about the Poignardeurs de Palerme that we didn't dare have an idea about the application of the death penalty. [...] May we first be allowed to relate a trial [...] which will be one of the milestones which will serve as an aid to our thought as it completes its journey into those austral lands of intelligence discovered so recently and which we call the phrenological world"...