Pierre-Marc-Gaston, duc de LÉVIS (1764-1830) officer and politician, peer of France. L.A.S., Ghent June 19 [1815], to his son the Viscount de Lévis, "staff officer to Mgr le Duc d'Angoulême"; 2pages n-4, addressed. The day after Waterloo... "We are here on the alert. Bonaparte, by whom the allies let themselves be warned despite our warnings, has arrived with a hundred thousand men 4 leagues from Brussels. They are fighting desperately. But in any case, he can only have ephemeral successes. Yesterday evening, we took 3,000 prisoners. [...] I do not intend to leave the King, who treats me with his ancient kindness"...