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DS in French, signed “C. de Gaulle,” one page, 16.75 x 13.25, May 12, 1962. Official consular authorization issued by President Charles de Gaulle, recognizing the appointment of Alexander Henry Baxter Hermann as British Consul General at Marseille. The document cites Hermann’s December 12, 1961 commission from Queen Elizabeth II and grants him authority to exercise his consular duties throughout Marseille and thirteen departments of southern France, including Bouches-du-Rhône, Alpes-Maritimes, Corse, and Vaucluse. Signed at the conclusion by Charles de Gaulle as president of France, and countersigned by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, with the embossed seal of the French Republic to the lower left. In fine condition.
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