ALS : La Grange, France, to Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, 1815 Dec. 26.

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ALS : La Grange, France, to Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, 1815 Dec. 26.

Concerns the expansion of France under Napoleon, the Congress of Vienna, the Hundred Days, and the Restoration. Lafayette expresses his satisfaction with the progress of freedom in Europe and concludes with an account of his life in retirement and recollections of his American friends.

1 item (6 p.) ; 24 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6791886

Rosenbach Museum & Library

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