Auguste BLANQUI (1805-1881). Ernest-Henri GRANGER... Lot 44

[Auguste BLANQUI (1805-1881)]. Ernest-Henri GRANGER (1844-1912) Blanquist militant, Blanqui's right-hand man, led the Blanquist movement before becoming a Boulangist deputy (!). 2L.A.S., 1877-1881, to a friend [probably Caspar Michal Turski]; 5 pages in-12. On Blanqui. Montreux December 25, 1877: "I did not come to Switzerland for my pleasure, but for the special purpose you know and for a short time"; he shakes "the hand of citizen Grigorieff"... Paris February 16, 1881, about Blanqui's newspaper, Ni Dieu ni Maître (the 1st issue appeared on November 20, 1880): "I am at once administrator, proofreader, secretary of the editorial staff, sales manager and painter of the newspaper. Through us and our friends, we sell the paper ourselves, and we're doing very well". He has no photo of Blanqui: "We had his face molded after his death. But only one copy of the cast was made, and we are keeping it as a document to be used for the bust to be placed on his tomb"...