Lot 1525 , Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834), French general and politician; letter to Madame [name cut from the cover], 22 Rue St Anne, Paris; La Grange, 26 December 1825

Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834), French general and politician; letter to Madame [name cut from the cover], 22 Rue St Anne, Paris; La Grange, 26 December 1825 Has not replied to her letter of 16 December, ‘most precious to my eyes’; will be interested to hear the details which she proposes to give him on his next visit to Paris, which will be towards the 12th or 15th of January.

With a lithograph of a portrait of Lafayette by François Séraphin Delpech (1778-1825); [Paris, 1832]

In September 1825 Lafayette returned from a triumphal tour of the United States, visiting the sites of the battles of the American War of Independence in which he had participated over forty years before. Lafayette lived at the Château de la Grange-Bléneau to the south-east of Paris, which he had acquired with his wife Adrienne, between 1802 and his death in 1834.
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