(FRANCE)
AUCTION 32 |
Thursday, March 23rd,
2006 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Autographed Letters, Manuscripts, Graphics and Ceremonial Art
Lot 305
(FRANCE)
Paris? n.d.:
Est: $500 - $700
PRICE REALIZED $1,200
Before being elected president of the assembly, Furtado, a delegate from Bordeaux, had served as syndic of the Portuguese “nation,” which is to say, the Jews of Spanish-Portuguese extraction. He is described as a man who “knew the writers of the eighteenth century better than the Talmud, and sought for truth in Voltaire much more than in any other Jewish or Christian author.” S. Schwarzfuchs, Napoleon, The Jews and the Sanhedrin (1979), p. 60