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Autograph label : Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire, to Anthippe Sevastos Couchoud, 1918 Dec. 18.

BIB_ID
294710
Accession number
MA 7342.47
Creator
France, Anatole, 1844-1924.
Display Date
1918 Dec. 18.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 11.5 x 14.8 cm
Notes
Part of a large collection of letters from Anatole France to Anthippe Sevastos Couchoud and her husband Paul Louis Couchoud. Letters in the collection are mostly undated, but were probably written between 1914 and 1922. Letters are cataloged individually; see collection record for more information.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Autograph label addressed to "Madame Couchoud / Les 'Camaris' / 2 avenue Pozzo di Borgo / Saint Cloud / (Seine et Oise)." Label is printed with a portrait of Woodrow Wilson and reads "Pour la Justice! Contre la barbarie!" and "La France reconnaissante salue le Grand citoyen WILSON." Label with stamp and postmarked Tours, 18 December 1918.
Regretting that he was unable to visit her; saying that there is a flu epidemic in La Béchellerie.