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LAFAYETTE, Marquis de. Autograph letter signed ("Lafayette") to an unidentified correspondent, Paris, 17 September 1829. 1 page, 4to, matted and framed.
A FINE, DRAMATIC LETTER IN WHICH LAFAYETTE COMMENTS ON THE FIRST STIRRINGS OF THE REVOLUTION OF 1830 and attacks against him in the Press. "We parted a few days ago at Lyons, the head quarters of the Consulate, amidst the kind of Bustle of a Reception which I cannot better qualify than in calling it American, with this difference, however, that it took place in spite of the total and supreme authorities. The papers will inform you of the toils in which France has been unexpectedly thrown by a Counter revolutionary intrigue, and of the necessity we are under to oppose it with firmness and concert..." He discusses the political position of the various Parisian newspapers and mentions their attacks on him: "...in the Gazette and guardine you may find among many lies the effusions of disappointment and Rage. That your friend [i.e. Lafayette] has been a principal bull [target] of these feelings, because he is considered as a principal obstacle to these designs, you will easily conceive..."
A FINE, DRAMATIC LETTER IN WHICH LAFAYETTE COMMENTS ON THE FIRST STIRRINGS OF THE REVOLUTION OF 1830 and attacks against him in the Press. "We parted a few days ago at Lyons, the head quarters of the Consulate, amidst the kind of Bustle of a Reception which I cannot better qualify than in calling it American, with this difference, however, that it took place in spite of the total and supreme authorities. The papers will inform you of the toils in which France has been unexpectedly thrown by a Counter revolutionary intrigue, and of the necessity we are under to oppose it with firmness and concert..." He discusses the political position of the various Parisian newspapers and mentions their attacks on him: "...in the Gazette and guardine you may find among many lies the effusions of disappointment and Rage. That your friend [i.e. Lafayette] has been a principal bull [target] of these feelings, because he is considered as a principal obstacle to these designs, you will easily conceive..."