LOUIS XVIII. L.A., Gosfield January 19, 1809, to Comte de La Châtre; 1page in-4. Concerning the Duc d'Avaray attacked by the Comte de Puisaye. He is pleased with the approval that La Châtre, the ducs de Coigny and de Lorge, the comtes d'Escars and de Vioménil, have given to the "noble and measured conduct that d'Avaray held in this infernal attack. I am no less sensitive to the interest that all five of you are taking in the pain I feel, it is keen, but while waiting for the consolations that public opinion will undoubtedly give me, I have sought some in my own means". He sends La Châtre a copy of his letters to d'Avaray, but "don't give a copy to anyone in the world", and explains his approach: Paul I not having limited himself to giving the King of France asylum in his States, but having moreover granted him what in terms of public law is called territory", he took the liberty "of creating d'Avaray Duke and Peer, by seating his Duchy on the land, today the place of the noble exile of his respectable Parens, to which I hope one day to give all the lustre that my own dignity entails. His modesty wrung from me the promise not to speak of it until happier times, but the infamous Puisaye freed me from it and I declare today what I did more than ten years ago"...