Élie Louis DECAZES, Duc DECAZES et de GLÜCKSBERG (1780-1860) - Lot 636

Élie Louis DECAZES, Duc DECAZES et de GLÜCKSBERG (1780-1860) Lawyer, Minister of Police in 1815, Minister of the Interior 1819, President of the Council, his policies were blamed for the assassination of the Duc de BERRY (Feb. 1820), Ambassador, He created important Forges in Aveyron (Decazeville) - Autograph letter signed from Château de GRAVE (GIRONDE) September 29, 1859: "You will perhaps excuse me, my dear Friend, for being selfish and unkind-hearted, if... I have wished and hoped to give you regrets, and the thought of coming another year to rediscover childhood memories and introduce our dear daughters to the Ségur that your excellent mother seemed to love. I shall be so happy, my dear friend, to resume the conversations we had nearly 40 years ago, and to speak openly, to think with the abandon of solitude about all that we have honored and served during our long career, the dignity of honor, the freedom born of order and supported by the confidence of sympathy. This is the power with which it has identified itself, not separating right from duty... the principle of which I have made my motto since 1815, and which you have the temerity to proclaim and recommend. I am convinced that this noble language, which you will no longer be allowed to use, will have been inspired by the fine lines of M. John Lemoine that I have just read in the Débats. If it is the honor of peoples as well as individuals to love, better to be unhappy and free than happy and enslaved; it is the insult also of Writers to publish it, when impunity is not assured to them. If you recall, when rereading what I said about the imprescriptible right and duty of peoples, subjected to an oppressive yoke, you will recognize that it is not from today that I profess these principles and these sentiments that I am honored to share with you..."