LAFAYETTE, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de. Seven autograph letters signed ("L. F." or "Lafayette") to a Mr. Mascles, ca. 1799 - 1820. Together 12 pages, 4to, all neatly tipped into an album bound in brown, quarter calf gilt, with typed transcriptions .
LAFAYETTE, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de. Seven autograph letters signed ("L. F." or "Lafayette") to a Mr. Mascles, ca. 1799 - 1820. Together 12 pages, 4to, all neatly tipped into an album bound in brown, quarter calf gilt, with typed transcriptions . LAFAYETTE'S COMMENTS ON NAPOLEON AND THE REVOLUTIONARY POLITICS OF FRANCE. A fine, richly newsy series of letters written at intervals during the Napoleonic wars, beginning with his return from prison in Austria. In his letter on "16th Thermidor," he describes a meeting with Napoleon: "We waited, La Tour, Maubourg and myself, on the First Consul, lately returned from His Glorious, Miraculous Journey, with whose reception we had every reason to be satisfied." Later the veteran of the American war and campaigns in Europe comments on Napoleon's Italian campaign: "With sanguine expectations, I am waiting for news from Italy. Bonaparte shall conquer. Our situation in Germany is glorious indeed--a Brilliant Campaign and an Honorable Peace are, I think, to be depended upon." On 30 Thermidor in 1799 he discusses Revolutionary politics: "General Fitzpatrick and Charles Fox are to meet at Paris. Lord Holland, whom I had the pleasure to see before I came here, told me how well he was received by you at Boulogne...Now I see a new Constitutional Organization--its merits, with respect to public liberty it is superfluous in this letter to discuss, the more so as you know my political principles, and since psalms have become fashionable again." He also proudly recounts the military exploits of his son Georges who fought with distinction in the Revolutionary army: "Sure it is, the Standard of the Rights of Man is not the side he will fight against." The reference to the Rights of Man is provocative, as Lafayette had drafted the Declaration of the Rights of Man, adopted by the Assembly in 1789. (7) (12)
LAFAYETTE, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de. Seven autograph letters signed ("L. F." or "Lafayette") to a Mr. Mascles, ca. 1799 - 1820. Together 12 pages, 4to, all neatly tipped into an album bound in brown, quarter calf gilt, with typed transcriptions .
LAFAYETTE, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de. Seven autograph letters signed ("L. F." or "Lafayette") to a Mr. Mascles, ca. 1799 - 1820. Together 12 pages, 4to, all neatly tipped into an album bound in brown, quarter calf gilt, with typed transcriptions . LAFAYETTE'S COMMENTS ON NAPOLEON AND THE REVOLUTIONARY POLITICS OF FRANCE. A fine, richly newsy series of letters written at intervals during the Napoleonic wars, beginning with his return from prison in Austria. In his letter on "16th Thermidor," he describes a meeting with Napoleon: "We waited, La Tour, Maubourg and myself, on the First Consul, lately returned from His Glorious, Miraculous Journey, with whose reception we had every reason to be satisfied." Later the veteran of the American war and campaigns in Europe comments on Napoleon's Italian campaign: "With sanguine expectations, I am waiting for news from Italy. Bonaparte shall conquer. Our situation in Germany is glorious indeed--a Brilliant Campaign and an Honorable Peace are, I think, to be depended upon." On 30 Thermidor in 1799 he discusses Revolutionary politics: "General Fitzpatrick and Charles Fox are to meet at Paris. Lord Holland, whom I had the pleasure to see before I came here, told me how well he was received by you at Boulogne...Now I see a new Constitutional Organization--its merits, with respect to public liberty it is superfluous in this letter to discuss, the more so as you know my political principles, and since psalms have become fashionable again." He also proudly recounts the military exploits of his son Georges who fought with distinction in the Revolutionary army: "Sure it is, the Standard of the Rights of Man is not the side he will fight against." The reference to the Rights of Man is provocative, as Lafayette had drafted the Declaration of the Rights of Man, adopted by the Assembly in 1789. (7) (12)
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