LOUIS XVIII (1755-1824). L.A. addressed to... - Lot 104 - Gros & Delettrez

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LOUIS XVIII (1755-1824). L.A. addressed to... - Lot 104 - Gros & Delettrez
LOUIS XVIII (1755-1824). L.A. addressed to Count Claude-Louis de La Châtre. Gosfield, February 4, 1809. 2 pp. 1/4 in-4. Beautiful and bitter letter from Louis XVIII about the Quiberon expedition: "[...] the letter and the note attached are made to be communicated. I will not add, especially when it is to you that I speak, that nothing in the world would succeed in making me change a thing to which nobody has the right to touch; I am used to persecution. This few words must be enough. "I needed moderation to write the two ostensible pieces, because in what has been said to you, everything hurts me, content and form. I do not speak only of the sint on an appeal to the nation, I knew well that if John Bull could say his opinion... but it is not given to everyone to feel the smallness of certain means. What I feel with more bitterness is the kind of friendly advice to accommodate the Puisaye affair [Count Joseph de Puisaye (1755-1827)] and this pain over the harm that such dissensions do to the cause. Would they exist, if instead of listening to a wretch whose clothes are dripping with the blood of Quiberon and Auray, one would have listened to him who alone has the right to speak [...]. The souls of mud bite without anger, but if Léonidas had listened to the proposals of Xerès, one would not have written on the rock of Thermopyles: Passing, go to say to Sparta that three hundred of its children died here to obey its laws, and that of the honor are worth well those of Lycurgue [...] ". A long postscript was added by Louis XVIII, the following day, with these words "The night brings advice" and moderates slightly his remarks.
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