Lot 1080
French Politicians, Two pages including Georges Bidault, head of the French Resistance and eventual president of the French Provisional Government (1946), signature on card; Henri Bonnet, Frenchman who fled to the U.S., returning to France in 1944 to become a minister in the Provisional Government and later Ambassador to the U.S., signature across stamp on card; and Robert Schuman, Under-secretary of State at the time of the German invasion, arrested by the Gestapo and deported to Germany, escaped and joined the Resistance, later serving as Premier and Foreign Minister; created the Schuman Plan for pooling Western Europe's industrial resources, signature twice on U.S.-France friendship stamp on card.
Estimate 200 - 300
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