Henri Rochefort. Autograph Letter Signed (ALS) regarding the newspaper L’Intransigeant (Paris, France), dated 10 January 1894.

Author: Victor Henri Rochefort, Marquis de Rochefort-Luçay (French, 1831–1913)
Medium: Ink on laid paper
Material: Cream laid paper, folded once vertically
Watermark: J. Allen & Sons, Fine
Size: 180 × 113 mm (folded), 180 × 226 mm (open)
Language: French
Provenance Stamp: Circular red collector’s stamp to verso: COLLECTION / DE LOUIS BRETONNIÈRE around initials LB

Louis Bretonnière – a French surgeon (1923-2020), interested in the history of the Commune de Paris (1871)

L’Intransigeant – a French newspaper founded in July 1880 by Henri Rochefort.

Transcription (French, line for line):

10 Janvier 94

Cher monsieur,

Je vous envoie le manuscrit
de mon article que j’ai téléphoné
de Bruxelles, à l’Intransigeant.
Il doit y avoir des incorrections
que je rectifierai en téléphonant.
Votre tout dévoué
V. Rochefort

Translation (English):

10 January 1894

Dear Sir,

I am sending you the manuscript
of my article, which I dictated
by telephone from Brussels
to L’Intransigeant.
There must be some inaccuracies
that I will correct by telephone.
Yours faithfully,
V. Rochefort