[LYAUTEY Louis Hubert Gonzalve [Nancy, 1854 - Thorey, 1934], - Lot 129

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[LYAUTEY Louis Hubert Gonzalve [Nancy, 1854 - Thorey, 1934], - Lot 129
[LYAUTEY Louis Hubert Gonzalve [Nancy, 1854 - Thorey, 1934], Marshal of France - SUAREZ Georges [1890 - 1944], novelist and critic]. Autograph manuscript signed, entitled "Un discours inédit du maréchal Lyautey". 12 pages in-4°. "A few years ago, at the end of a lunch given by M. Paul Reynaud at the Ministry of Finance, Marshal Lyautey took me aside and did me the honor of speaking sympathetically about a book I had just published on parliamentary mores. If I had known," he said, "that you were preparing this book, I would have sent you the text of the speech I was to have given to the Chamber on March 14, 1917. No one ever knew what I wanted to say, not even Briand, who had asked me to give the Chamber only a few purely technical details. From the very first words, I was stopped by the violence of the interruptions. The same day, I handed in my resignation as Minister of War. I left for Morocco a few weeks later, and never again had the opportunity to tell members of parliament what I thought of them and their way of working."
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