ALS in French, one page, 5.25 x 8.25, July 6, 1866. In full (translated): "I was out in the countryside and a bit late in thanking you for the kind words you devoted to me in The Illustration. The press has been quite mute with regard to me, so I find your article doubly precious. As for your restrictions, I understand them and consider them even necessary and useful." In very good to fine condition, with overall creasing. Founded by Édouard Charton, L'Illustration was a weekly French newspaper published in Paris from 1843 to 1944. In 1891, L'Illustration became the first French newspaper to publish a photograph, and in 1907 was the first to publish a color photograph.
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