LOUIS-PHILIPPE d’Orléans. - Lot 243

LOUIS-PHILIPPE d’Orléans. 1773–1850. King of the French. Autograph note on a request for an audience. Paris, January 27, 1820. 1 p., in-4. Autograph note by Louis-Philippe, then Duke of Orléans, on a request for an audience from General Count Rivaud de La Raffinière; the latter had asked the Duke’s aide-de-camp to be received in order to offer his services as a gentleman of the Chamber. The note specified that the general had “already been granted this honor three years ago, and has not been to Paris since then.” Louis-Philippe’s reply: “Friday at half past noon.” ENCLOSED: 3 P.S. letters from King Louis-Philippe, invitations for the opening of the Chamber, countersigned by the various Ministers of Justice, in 1831, 1833, and 1841. (3 pp., in-4).