Secretarial Letter Signed ('Le Vte. de La Rochefoucauld'), as 'Aide de Camp du Roi, chargé du Département des Beaux Arts', in French, to the editor in chief of the Parisian newspaper 'Le Pilote'.

Foolscap (roughly 31.5 x 20 cm): 2 pp. Bifolium with blank second leaf. Thirty-one lines of text. On lightly aged and creased paper, with some discoloration and chipping in a thin strip at head (roughly 1.5 cm deep), affecting the date and letterhead but not the text. Text clear and entire. Casting interesting light on early nineteenth-century news management by the authorities in the continental Europe. The letter concerns the coronation of Charles X. Begins 'L'Auguste cérémonie qui se prepare pour le sacre du Roi est une de ses Solemnités nationales dont tous les détails appartiennent au public et à l'histoire'. The 'administration à laquelle est confié le Soin d'en ordonner les préparatifs' has put in place all possible measures to ensure 'la plus grande publicité possible'. As 'M.M. les journalistes' may wish to take their own notes in Rheims Cathedral, la Rochefoucauld is sending a ticket of entry on which he asks that the editor write the names of the journalists who will be attending. As to the choice of journalists, he defers entirely to the discretion of the editor, in whom he has perfect confidence.