Émile de Kératry
La créance Jecker: les indemnités françaises et les emprunts mexicains.
Paris: Librarie Internationale, 1868. First edition. 158 pages.
Antique volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.75", is bound in half red leather and marbled paper-covered boards, with stamped gilt lettering and ornamental designs to spine. Book shows moderate external wear, with mild rubbing and scuffing at edges. Binding is firm. Traces of removal of attachments appear on endpapers. Very small tear is visible in upper outside corner of half title page. Pages are clean and without markings.
This volume presents French-language document shedding light on the history of the Second Empire and its intervention in Mexico. Jean-Baptiste Jecker (1812-1871) was a Swiss banker who was active in Meixco during the 1850s. The debt acquired by the Mexican governments of that time through his bank were used as a justification for the French intervention in Mexico that culminated in the ephemeral imperial regime of Maximilian of Habsburg.