Handwritten, untitled report on military and political events in France. Document is divided into seven sections, apparently reporting on seven different developments. One section reports on a M. d'André, former cabinet head of the ex-minister of foreign affairs, being newly appointed ambassador to Dresden in Saxony to replace M. Reinhardt, the newly appointed envoy to the Swiss: this happened in July 1849. Considerable attention is also given to the affairs of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, the French politician and anarchist who in 1849 was arrested for offending President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte.
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Anonymous report, Rush Hawkins collection, Ms.2006.05, Brown University Library
Digital object made available by: Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)
This collection contains images of documents in the Rush Hawkins collection (Ms.2006.05) relating to the First Italian War of Independence. Annmary Brown Hawkins (1837-1903) was married to Rush Hawkins and she was the daughter of Nicholas Brown III (1792-1859). Nicholas …
