Making a flag. AUTOGRAPHED LETTER SIGNED “LE Pce DE My” (Prince de Montmorency*), ADDRESSED TO COUNT FRANÇOIS ODOARDDU HAZÉ**, MAJOR OF THE KING’S NATIONAL GUARD, Paris May 19, 1817. 18875-3

Making a flag. AUTOGRAPHED LETTER SIGNED “LE Pce DE My” (Prince de Montmorency*), ADDRESSED TO COUNT FRANÇOIS ODOARDDU HAZÉ**, MAJOR OF THE KING’S NATIONAL GUARD, Paris May 19, 1817. 18875-3

Letter with address on the back: “To Mr. Count François ODOARD Knight of the Nl and Military Order of St Louis, Colonel Chief of Staff of the National Guard of the Seine Inférieure In Rouen”.
Stamped in red ink (unrecognizable).

This letter is addressed to Count François ODOARD, Major of the King's National Guard, Paris on May 19, 1817 concerning the making of a flag:
"... I think it would be a waste of time to have our flag made in Rouen, which would probably be more expensive and more poorly made, the man responsible here for making them, and who has all the models from the General Staff of Sir, came to me to take my orders on this subject, ... ".

4 pages in-4 including 2 containing the text of the letter.

* MONTMORENCY (Anne Louis Christian, Prince of). Anne-Louis-Christian de Montmorency (May 27, 1769 - Neuilly † December 25, 1844 - Munich), 8th Prince of Robech (1812), Count of Tancarville, Marquis of Seignelay, known as the Prince of Montmorency-Tancarville, is a soldier and man French politics of the 18th and 19th centuries. He was a Deputy from 1818 to 1827, Peer of France, Field Marshal in 1822.

** François-Gaston ODOARD DU HAZÉ DE VERSAINVILLE born October 21, 1833 in Marbeuf (Eure).
Versainville Castle is located in Calvados (Normandy), near Falaise, about thirty kilometers south-east of Caen. François-Gaston, known as “Count Odoard du Hazey” and “Marquis de Versainville”7 (October 21, 1833 in Marbeuf – January 3, 1921), former cavalry captain, knight of the Legion of Honor.