Auguste DIDE (1839-1918). French politician. Liberal,... Lot 51

Auguste DIDE (1839-1918). French politician. Liberal, he went into exile in Switzerland during the Second Empire. After studying at the Protestant Faculty of Theology in Strasbourg, he became a pastor in the Gard region of France. He published La fin des religions, La légende chrétienne and Servet et Calvin. In 1885, he gave a premonitory speech on the separation of Church and State, ended his pastoral duties and joined the Droit Humain Masonic Lodge in Nice with his wife Noémie. - L.a.s. "Auguste Dide, pasteur protestant" Paris January 9, 1976, 2 pp. in-8 on the letterhead of the Église Réformée de Paris. He asks the historian to intervene with the Minister of Fine Arts on behalf of an elderly painter and former outlaw.