Mar 07, 2024 - Sale 2661

Sale 2661 - Lot 7

Price Realized: $ 1,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
"THE INDEPENDENCE OF BELGIUM IS ONE OF THE...FRUITS OF OUR [JULY] REVOLUTION" LAFAYETTE, GILBERT DU MOTIER; MARQUIS DE. Letter Signed, "Lafayette," to French-American linguist and philosopher Peter Stephen Du Ponceau, in French, discussing current foreign policy of Republican France. 1 page, 4to, with integral address leaf; loss at upper left corner (not affecting text), folds. (SFC) Paris, 9 October 1830
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". . . We are persisting in our program of non-intervention, but we declare that if other powers invade our neighbors, for example, in Belgium, in Piedmont, or by sea in Spain, we will respond immediately and invade . . . . [T]he independence of Belgium is one of the first . . . fruits of our Revolution.
"You will see that despite the timidity of the latecomers ['retardataires': conscription evaders?] we advance in the career of political and social civilization. . . ."