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LOT 20:
Eight advertisement postcards for the French newspaper "La Petite République"
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Eight advertisement postcards for the French newspaper "La Petite République"
8 advertising postcards for the French newspaper "La Petite République". France, c. 1900.
In the postcards: a unique opens postcard in which a boy delivering newspapers holding "Le Petit" in his hand, from which a chain of 10 small photographs of buildings in Paris, Postcards of children's heads emerging from the newspaper or wrapped in newspaper are accompanied by short lines praising the newspaper.
The French republican newspaper La Petite République was published from April 12, 1876 to January 1, 1938 as a daily. It was founded by Alphonse Péphau. In the 1890s it was bought by Henri Turot. During the Dreyfus trial, the editor of the newspaper was Jean Léon Jaurès, who fiercely defended Dreyfus in a series of articles under the title "Proofs". Jaurès joined Emile Zola and headed the Dreyfus defenders group, against the anti-Semitic rightists. Jaurès was murdered by an assassin in August 1914.
Most of them were sent by mail. Very good condition.
