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LAFAYETTE, GILBERT DU MOTIER, Marquis de. Letter signed ("Lafayette"), to General Guglielmo Pepe, Paris 21 August 1830. 1 1/2 pages, 4to, integral address leaf, remains of wax seal, discreet repair to fold of address leaf, in French.
After the defeat of his rebel army by Austrian troops at Rieti in 1821 and the ensuing brutal repression of the Carbonarist rebels, General Pepe spent the next 27 years in England, France and other countries, where he continued to actively support the republican cause. In this note to his fellow Carbonarist (Lafayette had joined the society during the first Restoration) written a month after the July Days, Lafayette explains that he has had difficulty in reaching him, and obliquely discusses a "commission that you conferred on me...It was positively received, but they asked me to give them a few days, for reasons which you will easily guess...".
After the defeat of his rebel army by Austrian troops at Rieti in 1821 and the ensuing brutal repression of the Carbonarist rebels, General Pepe spent the next 27 years in England, France and other countries, where he continued to actively support the republican cause. In this note to his fellow Carbonarist (Lafayette had joined the society during the first Restoration) written a month after the July Days, Lafayette explains that he has had difficulty in reaching him, and obliquely discusses a "commission that you conferred on me...It was positively received, but they asked me to give them a few days, for reasons which you will easily guess...".