LOUIS-PHILIPPE, roi des Français (1773-1850)

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LOUIS-PHILIPPE, roi des Français (1773-1850)
*L.A.S.: Louis-Philippe d'Orléans, Palermo, November 21 and 22, 1811, 7 pp., in-8°, text in French, tears. A handwritten copy of another letter of Louis-Philippe dated December 23, 1811, 2 pp., in-8°, text in French, tears. "Monsignor, a few days ago I had already noticed a movement, a very striking agitation; it had come back to me various things which had left me in no doubt that the cause was a new proposal of the French and that it was not being deliberated at court. The result of this deliberation seems to me to have been what it should have been. The King ordered the Marquis de Circello to communicate the whole affair and all letters received on the subject to Admiral Fremantle and Mr. Douglas, and this communication took place yesterday morning. In the evening, when I went to the Queen's house with my wife, His Majesty took all these papers from the drawer of his desk, and gave them to me to read. I confess that reading them has infinitely relieved my mind that French communications always frighten, as you well know, Monseigneur, for it is impossible to read anything more foolish, silly and badly arranged. This is what it is. A certain Gambale, a Calabrian who had taken refuge in Messina with many of his compatriots, having returned to Calabria about six weeks ago with about 500 Neapolitan emigrants whom General Maittand and Governor Danero had passed on to Reggio in agreement with the French general, entered the house of this general who is a Neapolitan named Manhes as a doctor. From there Gambale writes to a Calabrian who is still living in Messina and who is called de Filipis, former chief of ... and then governor of a province of Calabria, then lieutenant-colonel (which he still is) and moreover charged by the Sicilian government to follow correspondence in Calabria with the Massistas and he sends him two letters for the queen of General Manhes that are not signed and writes him two others that contain the plan (stupid) and proposals (even more stupid
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