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LAFAYETTE, GILBERT DU MOTIER, Marquis de. Letter signed ("Lafayette") to General Guglielmo Pépé in Paris; Paris, 25 August 1830. 1 1/2 pages, 4to, integral address leaf, traces of wax seal, small hole from deletion of a word, discreet repair to hole 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 Pépé spent the next 27 years mainly in England and France, where he continued to lend his active support to 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 laments the "bad luck that has been pursuing him in his desire to communicate" with the General, describing his unsuccessful efforts to send the latter a note. "...No time was lost for the Commission with which you had charged me; it was received with much appreciation, but I was asked for a few more days, for a reason that you will easily guess and which I will explain..."
After the defeat of his rebel army by Austrian troops at Rieti in 1821 and the ensuing brutal repression of the Carbonarist rebels, General Pépé spent the next 27 years mainly in England and France, where he continued to lend his active support to 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 laments the "bad luck that has been pursuing him in his desire to communicate" with the General, describing his unsuccessful efforts to send the latter a note. "...No time was lost for the Commission with which you had charged me; it was received with much appreciation, but I was asked for a few more days, for a reason that you will easily guess and which I will explain..."