General TROCHU Louis-Jules, Governor of Paris on August 11, - Lot 586

General TROCHU Louis-Jules, Governor of Paris on August 11, 1870; President of the Government of National Defense of besieged Paris, Deputy - Letter A. S. General TROCHU, to his old comrade BRON, about Algeria. Paris, November 16, 1860. 6 pages in-8° : "... I know nothing about Algeria, nothing about Italy, Syria etc., and I don't want to know anything about them, as long practice has taught me that these questions and many others unfold painfully according to the events of each day, in the most unexpected terms, without human wisdom, experience of previous events... having the slightest part in them. It's the law of the times. Everything, you tell me, is uncertainty in Algeria, unrest, stagnation and all the rest. Hey, my poor friend, how could it be otherwise? The constitution of our Conquest was certainly the most difficult and delicate contemporary work. Everything had to be created in the midst of very diverse and complicated views, passions and interests..."

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