LA FAYETTE (Gilbert Du Motier de). Autograph... - Lot 7 - Osenat

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LA FAYETTE (Gilbert Du Motier de). Autograph... - Lot 7 - Osenat
LA FAYETTE (Gilbert Du Motier de). Autograph letter signed to Armande Roland. Paris, June 26, 1820. 3/4 p. in-4, address on back. "I have received, Madame, with great gratitude, and I have read with a real great pleasure the letter and the work that you have kindly sent me: YOUR YOUNG BOSTONIAN IS INTERESTING in so many ways that there is no reader who should not feel the price of it: allow me to avail myself of the two particular motives which attach me to her to offer you the homage of all the feelings which she inspires in me: my family will soon share them, because the moment of our reunion at La Grange [the castle of La Grange-Bléneau that La Fayette owned in the present commune of Courpalay], is not far off, I wanted to go and bring you the expression of my gratitude myself, the rest of our political affairs has delayed this satisfaction... THE MEASURES OF 1815 ARE TOO RECENT, THEIR CONSEQUENCES ARE TOO PROLONGED, THEY ARE TOO MUCH RECALLED BY NEW LAWS OF EXCEPTION SO THAT ALL THE FRIENDS OF THE FREEDOM DO NOT RECOGNIZE THE PRINCIPAL INTENTION OF YOUR WORK. WOMAN OF LETTERS WITH SUCCESS, ARMANDE MARCHANDEAU-DELILLE (1769-1852) enjoyed great beauty and wit. Very independent, she left her first husband and, placed against her will in a convent, she escaped, benefiting from the protection of Mirabeau. She lived for a while with Madame de Sainte-Amaranthe (who had a salon) and then married Claude-François Roland in 1796 and devoted herself to literature. She published many works including La Jeune Bostonienne (Paris, widow Renard, 1820), in which a woman exiled in the United States declares: "[...] in a not too distant future, I hope to find myself with all the objects of my tender affections: ah! let me hope that it will be in my beloved France, that the storm that scattered the children of glory will one day calm down, and that they will return to the native soil. "
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