[LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de] Document manuscrit, signé par Daniel Brent, Clerc Washington, 4 février 1824 1 page in-folio, abîmée, petite perte de papier
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LAFAYETTE INVITÉ PAR LE CONGRÈS. “GRATEFUL AND AFFECTIONATE ATTACHMENT STILL CHERISHED FOR HIM BY THE GOVERNMENT OF PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES". LAFAYETTE’S COPY Official promulgation submitted to Lafayette, certified by the Chief Clerk of the Department of State. “Resolution, in relation to an intended visit of the Marquis de Lafayette to the United States", par le Sénat et la Chambre des Représentants en Congrès assemblés : “the President be requested to communicate to him the assurances of grateful and affectionate attachment still cherished for him by the Government and people of the United States (...) a National Ship, with suitable accommodation be employed to bring him to the United States", en-tête : “[E]ighteenth Congress of the United States At the first Session Begun and held at the City of Washington in the Territory of Columbia on Monday the first day of December one thousand eight hundred and twenty three", signature : “The foregoing is a true Copy, faithfully compared with the Roll in this offi[ce] [...] Department of State, 7th Februar[y 1824], Daniel Brent" Daniel Brent (1774-1841) was Chief Clerk at the Department of State, who the previous May had put in hand Stone’s facsimile of the Declaration of Independence. The damage to this manuscript and damp-staining to about a dozen others in the archive - clearly at one time all filed together - was very possibly caused by Lafayette’s Ohio shipwreck midway through his tour. President Monroe was to write to Lafayette on 24 February, informing him of this resolution : “My dear General, I wrote you a letter about fifteen days since, by Mr Brown, in which I expressed the wish to send to any port in France you should point out, a frigate to convey you hither, in case you should be able to visit the United State. Since then, Congress has passed a resolution on this subject, in which the sincere attachment of the whole nation to you is expressed, whose ardent desire is once more to see you amongst them". The original signed by President James Monroe and approved at Washington on 4 February 1824, certified by the Chief Clerk at the Department of State, Washington, 7 February 1824. RÉFÉRENCES : Auguste Levasseur, Lafayette in America in 1824 and 1825, 1829, I, p.10
