[POLYNESIA - INDIA]. Very interesting set of 4 large in-4 and oblong in-folio albums including original photographs, letters, autograph manuscripts, business cards, travel cards, invitations and various documents collected by Albert Louis Marie HUGUET and following his travels, dinners and activities as attaché to M. le Président de la République. The first volume includes 376 original photographs of the archipelagos of Melanesia and Polynesia, taken between Monday May 11, 1896 and April 1, 1897, including Maré Island, Loyalty Islands, Lifou Island, Chépénéhé, Santal Bay, Port Sandwich - Malekula Island - New Hebrides, Wala, Vao, Espiritu Santo, Luganville - Segond Channel, Sandwich Islands, Fiji, Luva, Tonga Islands, Nuku'Alofa, King George II Day, Ma'ufanga, Mu'a, Kiosque de la Musique, Papeete, Tahiti, Pointe Vénus, Papenoo, Pineapple plantations, Walk around Tahiti, Lake Vaihiria, Moorea, Paea, Hananave - Fatu-Hiva Island - Marquesas, Vaitape Bay, Taioahe, Honolulu, Uturoa, Raiatea, Tahaa, Prisoners' Village, Bora Bora, Vaitape, Ceylon, Colombo, Albany. Each photograph laminated, captioned and located in pencil by Rear Admiral Huguet. The second and third volumes concern a voyage to India, Burma and Ceylon aboard the Dumbéa, departing Marseille in October 1912 on authorization from the Ministry of the Navy. It includes numerous printed tourist brochures with maps, menus and correspondence, telegrams, a few photographs of the passage through the Suez Canal, photographs of landscapes, monuments and scenes of life in Ceylon, Budha's tooth temple in Kandy, elephants, Stupas, Anuradhapura, Coromandel, Madurai Meenakshi, Madura, Trichinopoly, Tanjore, Pondicherry, Madras, Rangoon, Mandalay (January 1913), Calcutta, Bahadour Jain temple, Allahabad, fakir, Benares, Amritsar, some photographs by Wiele and Klein. Then, in the third volume, photographs of Punjab, Delhi, Bombay, temples and palaces, Taj Mahal, Agra, Jaipur, Rajputana, Udaipur, Ratnapura. Return aboard the Devanka from Bombay, passing through Djibouti and crossing the Suez Canal on April 17, 1913. Then photographs of Valencia, crews, the battleship Vergniaud and the Ajaccio area. The last volume is devoted to his activities as a lieutenant attached to the person of the President of the Republic Émile Loubet, and includes menus, invitations to meals and trips by M. le Président de la République, notably the trip to Nice and Toulon in April 1901, with opera programs, visiting cards, tickets, ticket-cutters and boarding passes for the port of Toulon, invitations from the Town Hall, the King of Italy and the Duke of Genoa, 14 photographs of ceremonies with M. le Président de la République, most by Léon Bouët, 8 photographs of the port of Toulon by Alexandre Bougault. Numerous visiting cards, invitations from Deschanel, Prince Radolin, invitations to the Salon des artistes français, de la photographie et des Architectes, railroad circulation maps, maps of the President of the Republic's stands at the Saint-Cloud, Vincennes, Auteuil and Chantilly, dinners at the Élysée, announcements, reception of the President of the Republic in Brest, extracts from l'Illustration, handwritten plan on tracing paper of the presidential voyage from Brest to Kronstadt aboard the cruiser Montcalm from May 14 to 20, 1902 and extracts from l'Illustration concerning this voyage. (some soiling to first volume, volumes 2, 3 and 4 with numerous photographs missing, most glued and sometimes captioned on spine, some documents torn or glued together, some soiling and marks, binding rubbed) Albert Louis Marie HUGUET (1857 - 1930). Born May 11, 1857, student at the Lycée de Lorient, joined the "Borda" in 1874. Commanded the "Liberté" when this battleship jumped at Toulon on September 25, 1911. He then served in Paris, at the Ministry, as Chairman of the Merchant Navy Examination Commission. Rear-admiral on December 24, 1911, placed at the head of the Far East Naval Division, he flew his flag in December 1913 on the cruiser "Montcalm", with which he toured the Pacific. He continued to command his division after the declaration of war, cruising with it throughout the Indian Ocean and Red Sea. He retired in 1917, having reached the age limit. Expert: Mr. Nicolas Asvisio