FRANCE Anatole (1844-1924) [AF 1896, 38e f]. Autograph NOTES, and 2 corrected PROOFS of his Reception Speech, 1896; 13 pages in-8 or small in-4; 2 sets of proofs in-4, 29 pp. (in sheets) and 28 p. (qs ff repaired, bradel cardboard, Petitot). Preparatory notes, and proofs of his reception speech at the Académie française. Anatole France, elected on January 23, 1896 to the chair of Ferdinand de LESSEPS, was received on December 24 by Octave Gréard. Preparatory notes on the projects of F. de Lesseps (on the back of a draft on M. Bergeret) and the history of the Suez Canal. Third proof (stamped with the date of August 29, 1896), with autograph corrections and additions in the margins. Fourth proof (dated November 6, returned on the 20th), with new corrections and additions, including an autograph check mark modifying the beginning of the biography of Lesseps. Ex libris Simone André-Maurois. Attached is the edition of the Discours de réception (Calmann-Lévy, 1897, partly uncropped); and 5 photographs (one of Mme de Caillavet in Quiberon in 1907), plus press clippings.