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Letter signed by Napoleon III, Paris, undated : print with manuscript additions.

BIB_ID
427500
Accession number
MA 2917
Creator
Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1808-1873.
Display Date
Paris, France, undated.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1972.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 20.8 x 13.3 cm
Notes
On the stationery of the Commission Impériale de l'Exposition Universelle and signed by Napoleon III in his capacity as president of the commission. Given this context, the letter may have been signed either before the Exposition Universelle of 1855 or the Exposition Universelle of 1867, both of which were held in Paris.
Acquired as part of a collection of documents of French royalty.
Provenance
Purchased at the Carnegie Book Shop, 26 June 1972.
Summary
Giving the bearer permission to enter the Exposition des Beaux-Arts before it opens.