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Lot n° 10

COUBERTIN, Pierre de. L.A.S.

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Cavalaire, February 25, 1907. 3 pp. in-8. Brown ink on double page. "It's me again. Excuse me, please. I am urgently needed from Neuchâtel in Switzerland where my little boy [his handicapped son Jacques Frédy de Coubertin] is in residence with his birth certificate. He was born in Paris on January 15, 1896, on the 16th Arrest. Can I get this extract just by writing? [...]. What happened after my visit on January 20, at the time of my departure, remained dark for me. It seems that someone wanted to take revenge for your intervention with a judgment of such extravagant injustice and based on obviously incorrect facts - that I can't believe it. I would give anything to know what's underneath the cards...".