REVOLUTION/RESTAURATION - Lot 308

REVOLUTION/RESTAURATION Autograph signed by the Marquis de LAFAYETTE and Marshal Macdonald. A long letter from a former soldier, addressed to the then Minister of War, Comte Gérard, dated August 28, 1830, which today would be described as "motivational": Antoine Maziau recounts his military career and his involvement in the "French Bazaar plot" (August 19, 1820), aimed at ousting Louis XVIII and replacing him with the King of Rome. Bazar français" (August 19, 1820, aimed at ousting Louis XVIII and replacing him with the King of Rome, Napoleon's son) and, because of a wound, was unable to return to the army, he asked to join the Gendarmerie, as a legion chief. In the margin, an autograph note signed by Lafayette recommending him (8 lines), followed by the same autograph recommendation signed by the Duc de Tarente, Marshal Macdonald, the latter specifying that he knew Antoine Maziau very well and "the condemnation brought against him by the Paris Chamber of Peers in 1820 without the titles he invokes and which His Excellency will appreciate". One folio page recto verso.