Lot 101
Édouard Drumont – Two Autograph Letters, a Label and a Postcard – France
Two letters handwritten by Édouard Drumont, a postcard with Drumont's photograph and an advertising label of the anti-Semitic newspaper La Libre Parole. [France, late 19th century / early 20th century]. French.
1-2. Two letters handwritten by Drumont: a letter from 1909, on the official stationery of the newspaper La Libre Parole, and a letter on Drumont's calling card (undated).
3. A round paper label – advertisement for the anti-Semitic newspaper la Libre Parole.
One side designed as the French cockade, with the printed caption "Vive Drumont, A Bas les Juifs" [Long Live Drumont, Down with the Jews]. The other side bears a picture of the newspaper's editor, the anti-Semitic writer and journalist Édouard Drumont (1844-1917) encircled by the caption "Tous les bons Francais lisent la Libre Parole [All good French read La Libre Parole].
4. Postcard with a photograph of Drumont. Signed in the plate: "H. Manuel / EOK Paris".
Édouard Adolphe Drumont (1844-1917), was a French journalist and writer; famous in France and around the world as an anti-Semitic propagandist. Drumont founded the Antisemitic League of France, published the La Libre Parole newspaper whose motto was "France for the French", and published numerous anti-Jewish books. His first best seller was the anti-Semitic book "Jewish France", in which he called for the expulsion of Jews from French society.
Size and condition vary. Good overall condition.
