DINET Alphonse-Étienne [Paris, 1861 - id., 1929], French pai - Lot 207

DINET Alphonse-Étienne [Paris, 1861 - id., 1929], French painter. Autograph letter signed. Paris, November 18, 1911; 2 1/2 pages in-8, tired folds. "Here are the names of the persons to whom your brother will be able to recommend me: 1° the Doctor Couilland, former mayor of Biskra, whom I have known a lot, but who has had many political and who has a bit of the habits of a 20th year student. Nevertheless, he was a very good boy and very helpful. Enclosed is a card for him. 2° I knew the new mayor, Mr. Piétri, a judicial interpreter, an enemy of the first mayor, of course. interpreter, enemy of the first mayor, naturally. 3° Foureau of the Company of Oued Rihr, cousin of the explorer. 4°. The Arab guide El Hadji Guitoun, probably at the Victoria Hotel, who who could give him information and recommend him to other guides, many of whom knew Sliman and me. 5° Si Ahmed Ben Alia, tobacco merchant, in front of a Moorish café which belonged to him and in which I passed which belonged to him and in which I spent long hours every day, because it is very well located, almost almost all the regulars know us, Sliman and me. 6°. The store of haberdashery-grocery of Ahmed Ben Sliman, Lozabite, a little relative of Sliman, where we stayed very often because it is placed at the corner of the market. 7° The American painter, Thériat, one of my workshop mates came almost every year.