LUMIÈRE, Louis (1864-1948)

LUMIÈRE, Louis (1864-1948)

Autograph quote signed « Louis Lumière »
N.p., 26 June 1936, 1 p. in-4° on beige laid paper
Fine condition throughout

Touching quote from the engineer and cinema pioneer

« Ne peut-on espérer que les hommes deviendront un jour raisonnables et finiront par s’entendre ?…
Ce serait si simple, avec un peu de jugement, de bon sens et surtout de bonté !
Louis Lumière »

Louis Lumière seems to have written this thought (intended for Colonel Henri Reine) in the very unstable context of the first half of 1936. Franco-German tensions were then at their height following the remilitarization of the Rhineland by the Wehrmacht (on Hitler’s orders) in March 1936, with the aim of reestablishing the sovereignty of the Reich.