Maréchal Comte Bertrand CLAUZEL (Mirepoix/ Ariège 1772 - 184 - Lot 581

Maréchal Comte Bertrand CLAUZEL (Mirepoix/ Ariège 1772 - 1842), Letter signed as Lieutenant-General Député des ARDENNES (Marshal of France in 1831) - Political letter to M. SAVOYE Mayor of RETHEL (08). Paris May 23, 1831 - 2 pages in-4°: "I have always thought that a Deputy would not fulfill his Mandate well, if in economic questions which touch the foundations of social organization, he pretended to make his personal opinion prevail over the opinion of his constituents... It is according to these principles that I have come to ask MM. Les Électeurs des Ardennes to let me know their opinion on the question of the heredity of the PAIERIE, which should soon lead to solemn debates...."