Eugene Petit Manuscripts, 1976

Collection context

Creator:
Petit, Eugène, 1850-1931
Extent:
2 items (1 box)
Language:
French .
Scope and content:

Photocopies of typescripts of reports and letters. These reports and letters, some of them in extract form, cover from September 1916 to April 1918, and total 623 pages. Also included is an offprint of an article by Ioanis Sinanoglou that was partly based on this material.

Biographical / historical:

Petit was a lawyer with ties to French right-wing socialists. He was sent to Petrograd in 1915 to act as liason between the French Ministry of Armaments and War Production and its Russian counterpart.

Access and use

Restrictions:

This collection is located on-site.

Location of this collection:
6th Floor East Butler Library
535 West 114th Street
New York, NY 10027, USA
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