Hubert Lyautey Autograph

Typed letter signed, one page, 8,25 x 10,75 inch, `Le Maréchal Lyautey` stationery, Thores, 20.09.1928, in French, reply letter to an unnamed gentleman - concerning the use of passages from `Rôle Colonial de l`Armée` by Lyautey*, signed in dark ink "Lyautey", with intersecting mailing folds and mild signs of age wear - in fine condition.

"Monsieur,
   J`ai bien recu votre lettre du II septembre.
Je vous autorise bien volontiere à utiliser les passages du `Rôle Colonial de l`Armée` qui peuvent vous être nécessaires, et je suis heureux d`apprendre que vous les porterez ainsi à la connaissance des officiers de votre Armée.
   Recevez, Monsieur, l`expression de mes sentiments les plus distingués.
      Lyautey"

Translated:
"Sir,
   I have received your letter of September 12th.
I gladly authorize you to use any passages from the `Rôle Colonial de l`Armée` that may be necessary, and I am pleased to learn that you will thus bring them to the attention of the officers of your Army.
   Please accept, Sir, the expression of my most distinguished sentiments.
      Lyautey"

* Published in 1900 in the Revue des Deux Mondes, the essay `Rôle Colonial de l`Armée` (`On the Colonial Role of the Army`) by the future Marshal Hubert Lyautey is the manifesto of modern French colonization. In it, he theorizes an army that is not merely an instrument of brutal conquest, but an agent of development, administration, and peaceful assimilation.