Lot 2140

Handwritten and signed letter from writer and politician F.R. de Chateaubriand to marshal Macdonald, Duke of Taranto and Grand Chancellor of the French Legion of Honour, dated Paris September 5, 1823, on the request of the Austrian Major General Mattutinowitch to be decorated as an officer in this order - 195x317 mm, Dutch paper watermarked 'Van der Ley' - cut off on the left, very fine, with certificate