Author:
Jules Auguste Armand Marie, Prince de Polignac (1780-1847), French Prime Minister under Charles X.
On rectangle of paper roughly 9 x 17 cm. Cut from the head of a letter for an autograph hunter. Fair, on aged paper, with traces of previous mount on the reverse. Above the signature a florid five-line valediction in the best courtly style. Date and beginning of letter on reverse.