Autograph letter to Hugo asking him to call on all Savoyards to support a paper, La Savoie Patriotique, which the writer is about to launch in furtherance of the union of Savoy with a Republican France.
Marked 'r' (répondu) in Hugo's hand.
Written at Chambéry.
Thiabaud was a French journalist and man of letters, editor-in-chief of Le Peuple. Hugo wrote the preface of Thiabaud's Exploits d'un ermite (1896).