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LAFAYETTE, MARIE JOSEPH DE

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LAFAYETTE, MARIE JOSEPH DE
(1757 - 1834) French statesman and military officer who served as a Major General under Washington and was instrumental in the defeat of Cornwallis at Yorktown. Good content L.S. ""Lafayette"" 2pp. 4to., La Grange, May 9, 1831, in French to M. Regnault Warin regarding the recipient's biography of Lafayette. In part: ""...I was very surprised...to see in the papers the announcement of a story about General Lafayette published by you with some documents... I sent. I am only able to thank you for your accommodation to speak of the vicissitudes of my life, but you know that I have sent you when it was to be published some memoirs...I already am ignoring that...these documents which I would have furnished when you told me you, even if it was a long time what you had not received another paper from me that was a biographical note on two of my friends; but I did only insisted on this matter that after having received from you a word of explanation, and then I would have begged you to give that which would have completely outside of full cooperation with your work. My motives regarding this aspect are going to be...explained and are going to be recognized by you..."". Very good condition.