Manuscript - Lot 290

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Manuscript - Lot 290
Manuscript BARTHOU (Louis) Autograph manuscript [Report on the Prizes for Virtue], 1930, signed “Louis Barthou.” Barthou, as director of the Academy, delivered the traditional report on the Prizes for Virtue awarded by the Academy in 1930, highlighting deserving individuals and paying tribute to several charitable organizations, concluding: “The sense of what is good is by no means rare in France. Devotion knows no unemployment here. Virtue is not a hollow word here. Whether it looks at itself or compares itself to others, such a country has nothing to fear for its future. ” 19 pages in-4 mounted on tabs, in blue ink on blue paper, featuring numerous cross-outs, corrections, and additions. 1/2 brown chagrin, signed M.-P. TRÉMOIS, with a gilt title page. Report to the Académie française on the Prizes for Virtue. This speech was delivered on December 4, 1930. The manuscript is inscribed at the top: “ To ‘La Loriotte,’ who might play a tune of Virtue on the Tree of Goodness, her affectionately devoted friend Louis Barthou, December 9, 1930.” This likely refers to Mrs. Lorette Guilliotte, mentioned in the report, who was 82 years old at the time: “A widow since 1913, she has had to, after a life that was never a happy one, shoulder the heaviest burdens: a daughter, a granddaughter, and a grandson—all in poor health—and four great-grandchildren, the eldest of whom is seven years old. To provide for these dependents, for whom she is almost the sole provider, Mrs. Guilliotte cares for infants and children ranging in age from three to eleven.”
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