The French government, fleeing the Prussians, took refuge in Tours in 1870. Precious correspondence sent by Alfred Sensier to his friend Jules Niel, librarian at the Ministry of the Interior.
Grotesque caricatures of the French king Louis-Philippe and his minister François Guizot during the revolution of 1848.
George SAND is ‘moved and broken beyond reason’. ‘Chopin was dangerously ill while I was stuck here, unable to leave my family for a moment […]. Once again, he has been saved.’ A long letter written a few months before the end of their relationship.
Hermeticism, occultism and alembics. The secrets of Alexis Piemontais, augmented by a book of Distillations. 1572.
Jules Lemaitre in Belfort. Violent xenophobic and anti-Semitic legislative campaign in 1902.
