(1887 - 1981) French general who commanded the 3rd Algerian Infantry Div. in the Italian Campaign and liberated Siena. In August, 1944 he took command of the French II Corps and took Toulon and Marseille. Lot of four T.L.S.s on his French Commander in Chief in Germany letterhead, 4pp. total, 4to., Oct. 28, 1945 - Jan. 30, 1946 in French to Gen. Geoffrey Keyes, commander of the II Corps and Patton's deputy commander who arranged the general's burial. In his Dec. 27 letter, the general deeply mourns the death of Patton, comparing him to Lafayette as a liberator and hero of the French people, and expresses the public's condolences. The balance of the letters (one torn) offer thanks for American participation in a ceremony at Colmar, a complaint that Americans had barged into a hospital treating wounded Germans and photographed the patients, thanks for a camera, etc. File holes and the aforementioned tear, else very good.