\"Albert Lebrun\" Hand Signed TLS Dated 1934 By Private Secretary COA For Sale

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\"Albert Lebrun\" Hand Signed TLS Dated 1934 By Private Secretary COA:
$489.99

Up for sale a RARE! "Albert Lebrun" Hand Signed TLS Dated 1934 By Private Secretary Eugene Buhman. Important French historical documents like this are usually found only in museums. We are pleased to offer this rare document for sale. his

item is authenticated by Todd Mueller Autographs and comes with their

Certificate of Authenticity.

politician, President of France from 1932 to 1940. He

was the last president of the Third Republic. He was a member of the

center-right Democratic Republican Alliance (ARD).

Born to a farming family he attended the École Polytechnique and the École des Mines de Paris, graduating from

both at the top of his class. He then became a mining engineer in Vesoul and Nancy,

but left that profession at the age of 29 to enter politics. Lebrun gained a

seat in the Chamber of Deputies in 1900 as a member of the Left Republican

Party, later serving on the cabinet as Minister for the Colonies from

1912–1914, Minister of War in 1913 and Minister for Liberated Regions,

1917–1919. Joining the Democratic Alliance, he was elected to the French 1920, and served as

Vice President of the Senate from 1925 through 1929. He was president of that

body from 1931–1932. Lebrun was elected President of France following the

assassination of President Paul Doumer by Pavel

Gurgulov on 6 May 1932. Re-elected in 1939, largely because of

his record of accommodating all political sides, he exercised little power as

President. In June 1940, with the military collapse of France imminent, Lebrun

wrote "the uselessness of the struggle was demonstrated. An end must be

made." With

the Cabinet wanting to ask for an armistice, on 17 June 1940 Prime

Minister Paul Reynaud resigned, recommending to

President Lebrun that he appoint Marechal Philippe

Petain in his place, which he did that day. British

General Sir Edward Spears, who was present with the French cabinet during this

crisis wrote "it is clear that the President had made up his mind that

France was free of her obligations to Britain, and was at liberty to ask for an

armistice [with Germany] if she deemed it to be in her interests to do

so." On 10 July 1940, Lebrun enacted the Constitutional Law of 10 July 1940,

which the National Assembly had voted for by 569 votes to 800 allowing

Prime Minister Philippe Pétain to promulgate a new constitution. On 11 July,

Lebrun was replaced by Pétain as head of state. Lebrun then fled to Vizille (Isère)

on 15 July, but was later captured, on 27 August 1943, when the Germans moved

into the region and was sent into captivity at the Itter Castle in Tyrol.

On 10 October 1943 he was allowed to return to Vizille due to illness, but was

kept under constant surveillance.On 9 August 1944, Lebrun met with Charles de

Gaulle and acknowledged the General's leadership, and

conveniently forgetting the new Constitutional Law he had enacted in 1940, said

that he had not formally resigned as President Whether or not de Gaulle

accepted this lie is unknown. During the post-war Petain trial "all the

available celebrities of the Third Republic testified, including Lebrun, all

whitewashing themselves"] Lebrun

argued again that he had never officially resigned.

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