JEAN-PIERRE MANAU (1822-1908), Procurator-General at the Cour de Cassation, who moved for revision of Dreyfus's conviction. ALS, 2 pages, Paris, 12 July 1898. Translation: "You ask me what my dream was at twenty? I had only one: to make an honourable place for myself in society through work, to see my aspirations towards liberty realised by the Republic. Has maturity realised them? Yes, for after an eclipse of 18 years I had the joy of seeing the Republic reborn, the condition and source of all progress, and it is the Republic that, after all the stages of my career, raised me to one of the first posts of the Magistracy... 'True happiness on earth consists in the consciousness of duty done and in the affections of the domestic hearth.' Accept, Madame, the assurance of my best sentiments. J.P. Manau, Procureur Général près la Cour de Cassation." P.S. "I have no portrait from my twentieth year. But if it will do, I have one from my seventieth (1892)..." This item will be accompanied by a Letter of Authenticity from One of a Kind Collectibles.
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