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[AUTOGRAPH]. LYAUTEY (Hubert, Marshal).
See original version (French)
164
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[AUTOGRAPH]. LYAUTEY (Hubert, Marshal).
See original version (French)
Estimate €60 - €80
Voluntary lot
Description
[AUTOGRAPH]. LYAUTEY (Hubert, Marshal). SIGNED AUTOGRAPH LETTER [addressed to LOUIS BERTRAND?], CONCERNING HIS “LOUIS XIV” AND NORTH AFRICA. No place, ‘1 November 1923’. 3½ pages in ink on a double sheet (21 × 13 cm) with the printed letterhead ‘Marshal Lyautey — Resident-General in Morocco’. Centre fold. A BEAUTIFUL LETTER COMBINING ADMIRATION FOR LOUIS XIV WITH REFLECTIONS ON MOROCCO AND ISLAM. Lyautey thanks his correspondent for sending him his book: ‘I was just about to write to you to tell you how highly I thought of your “Louis XIV” after reading it in the Revue when I received the volume which you were kind enough to send me. ’ He declares himself ‘very pleased’ with this reading, which, in his view, challenges a myth perpetuated by Saint-Simon, Michelet and Lavisse, and which has almost become historical fact. He congratulates the author on having recalled the grandeur of the French tradition. The Marshal then addresses their differences of opinion regarding North Africa and Islam. He states that he found in Morocco ‘the character of a state […] in the sense of the great Latin and Roman tradition’, whilst acknowledging that his correspondent does not share this conviction. He expresses a desire to discuss the matter at length with him and concludes by expressing his high regard and friendship. The addressee can be identified with a high degree of certainty as Louis BERTRAND (1866–1941), whose *Louis XIV* was published in 1923.
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