DAMAS (Ange, Hyacinthe, Mayence, Gustave de)

Paris 1785 - 1862 - General, Minister, 1st Aide de Camp of Prince Jérôme Napoléon, Minister of Foreign Affairs in place of CHATEAUBRIAND, then Governor of the young Duke of BORDEAUX (Henri V) on May 1828 and followed him after the events of 1830 in his Exile. Long Letter A.S. d'EXIL to LAUSANNE, to Mr GRANIER Editor of LA GLANEUSE in Lyon, 29 November (1832) - 3 pp in-4°. "“.. I thought, when I left the Fatherland, to come and settle temporarily in a free country almost neighbouring mine, to be delivered from the prisons, from the persecutions, from the investigations of the execrable agent of the execrable PHILIPPE but it is not so; Mr VIDOC followed me to LAUSANNE, and the secret funds placed at his disposal to establish in this city a secret police, both against the CARLISTS and against the Patriots start producing their effect... DECAZES had invented the insidious manoeuvre of dividing patriots by making them suspicious of each other... Poor France! Does it have to moan dishonorably and ruined for a long time under the yoke of an assembly of governors as hideous as each other? I don't know; but I hope every day and I suffer from not being able to give my life to break his chains" (Extract).