HENRI V, Henri d'Artois dit (1820-1883), duc de Bordeaux the - Lot 112

HENRI V, Henri d'Artois dit (1820-1883), duc de Bordeaux then comte de Chambord, grandson of King Charles X. Set of 2 documents: autograph manuscript signed piece signed with autograph place and date. Frohsdorf, December 25, 1853 and Venice, April 10, 1855. 3 pp. 1/2 in-4 and 2 pp. ½ in-4. Strong tears at folds of first document, with no missing parts. -Manuscript in the hand of the Comte de Chambord containing 6 crucial commands for organizing the reconquest of power: "1° Each correspondent should hasten to organize, if he has not already done so, the department or district for which he is responsible, by establishing one or more sub-correspondents [ ]". 2° He must keep in regular and continuous communication with these various local sub-correspondents, and instruct them to form around themselves aggregations of which they will be the center [ ] and to carefully avoid any compromise [ ]. 3° He will accurately transmit his information on everything that may be happening around him, on trends and changes in the public spirit in his district [ ].". Etc. - Very interesting rules and guidelines for implementing the geographical reconquest of power, entitled: "Notes pour le bureau rédigées conformément aux instructions de Monseigneur et soumises à son approbation". "The incessant efforts of the Bureau must particularly aim [ ] to ensure on all points [ ] the instantaneous intervention of our friends [ ] this intervention will be practical and consequently obligatory as the execution of an instruction, our friends must understand that it is up to them to take the initiative, under pain of exposing their political individuality to be weakened and compromised [ ]. Until such time as a definitive plan can be adopted, the arrangements and measures provisionally adopted by the bureau to regulate its action, at the time of the anticipated event, in order to ensure the transmission of the notices to be given to M., to facilitate the execution of his instructions, and to coordinate the individual action of the members of the bureau, under the conditions indicated by the plan [ ]". Signature, place and date in Count de Chambord's handwriting.