Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, A.L.S. La Grange [France] March 3 1817 : to James Monroe President of the United States, Washington.

Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, A.L.S. La Grange [France] March 3 1817 : to James Monroe President of the United States, Washington.

La Grange [France] 1817

[1] p. on 2 conjugate leaves ; 24 cm.

MSS L2010F161 M MB

Lafayette writes to President Monroe on behalf of a French officer, M. de Leaumont, who served during the revolutionary war but was not eligible for Society membership under the original French rules. Leaumont hoped that President Monroe might intervene. Lafayette writes that he informed the officer that "the president had nothing to do with the admission into the Society or the distribution of badges, but have added that my friend and brother officer Col. Monroe, whose personal standing in the Society is very high, would, I thought, be pleased to do or cause to be done what might tend to promote the laudable and interesting wishes of M. de Leaumont ..." Nicholas-Marie, vicomte de Leaumont de Gojean was admitted to the South Carolina Society eight years later on July 4, 1825.
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