[CARNOT (Hippolyte)]. LEFEVRE-PONTALIS (Antonin). Notice sur - Lot 165

[CARNOT (Hippolyte)]. LEFEVRE-PONTALIS (Antonin). Notice sur M. Hippolyte Carnot. Paris, Alphonse Picard, 1891. In-8°, 48 pp. Green half-percaline à la Bradel, brown morocco title page, cover preserved. With dispatch from the author "A Monsieur le Président de la République, respectueux hommage. Lefèvre-Pontalis". Autograph note from Colonel CARNOT, his son: "M Lefèvre Pontalis was a partisan - under the pretext of a funeral oration, he made, in his own way, historical criticism and judged, as a partisan, Lazare Carnot. The President and his family were offended, and did not thank the author. Enriched with a "Note d'Hippolyte Carnot à sa famille, copiée sur l'original le 19 mars 1888", a moral and political testament, in its envelope.