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AUTOGRAPH
COLLECTING
IN FRANCE
AUTOGRAPH COLLECTING IN FRANCE
Autograph letters of Napoleon—His associates and contemporaries—Other French autographs
"I cannot write well because my mind is engaged on two subjects at once; one, my ideas; the other, my handwriting. The ideas go on fastest, and then goodbye to the letters and the lines! I can only dictate now. It is very convenient to dictate. It is just as if one were holding a conversation" (Napoleon).—Gourgaud, p. 261.