ALS in French, signed “Lafayette,” one page, 7 x 9.25, January 1, 1816. Letter to "Monsieur Thierry" in Melun, written from La Grange, in part (translated): "I saw in the newspapers, with much regret, that your young subordinate will no longer be in a position to take advantage of your benevolent interest in him. This letter will be given to you by a soldier named Brule, the nephew of a trustworthy man employed on my farm who asked me to try and help him. The young man—after having served for seven years, having some means and having no family to take care of him, and moreover being a blacksmith by trade—would like that the number and zealousness of his war campaigns and would be sufficient to permit his return to his trade. I don't know what the present regulations are. If you can advise him, you will do him a favor." Mounted with the address leaf open, matted beside an engraved portrait bearing a facsimile signature, and framed to an overall size of 32 x 19. In very good to fine condition, with scattered light foxing and soiling, and light show-through along the edges and center from tape on the reverse.
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