ALPES-DE-HAUTE-PROVENCE. Jules BARTHÉLEMY SAINT-HILAIRE (180 - Lot 152

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ALPES-DE-HAUTE-PROVENCE. Jules BARTHÉLEMY SAINT-HILAIRE (180 - Lot 152
ALPES-DE-HAUTE-PROVENCE. Jules BARTHÉLEMY SAINT-HILAIRE (1805-1895), then Secretary General of the Presidency of the Republic (Thiers presidency). Letter signed to Pierre Allemand (1815-1901), deputy for Basses-Alpes. 2 p. in-4, Présidence de la République letterhead. Versailles, December 1, 1871. He has received an address from the Conseil général des Basses-Alpes "in which the members of this council declare that they give their full and complete support to the Government of the Republic and undertake to lend it their loyal and devoted assistance". The President was very touched by this, but "the law formally forbids departmental councils from issuing political wishes, and the wish you kindly transmitted to the President of the Republic was essentially of this kind. It was to avoid this pitfall that several councils voted on an address only after the session had closed and outside the meeting [...]".
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