Louis-Philippe-Joseph, duc d'ORLÉANS, known as PHILIPPE-ÉGALITÉ (1747-1793) deputy to the Convention, voted for the death of Louis XVI and was guillotined; father of Louis-Philippe. P.S. "pour copie LPJ d'Orléans", London July 3, 1790; 2pages in-fol. (edges slightly frayed). Important document on his stay in England, copy of his letter to the President of the National Assembly. Sent to England after the days of October 1789, the Duc d'Orléans asked that the National Assembly be informed of his situation. He had written to the King to announce his imminent return to Paris. But he received a visit from a M. de Boinville sent by Lafayette, who urged him to delay his return, because of "the troubles that would be stirred up by ill-intentioned people, who would not fail to use my name". He asked the Assembly to decide on his conduct. He recalls that it was Lafayette, on behalf of the King, who had entrusted him with this mission to England: "among the motives that M. de Lafayette presented to me [...], one of the main ones was already that my departure would omit any pretext for ill-intentioned people to use my name to incite tumultuous movements in Paris, and that he, M. de La Fayette, would find it easier to maintain tranquility in the capital; [...] I accepted this mission and the capital has not been tranquil"... His name has been used in numerous libels, and he wants to know "who these ill-intentioned people are [...] either to punish them, or to repress them. It's time to find out why my name is being used as a pretext for popular movements rather than any other; it's time, finally, that this phantom is no longer presented to me, without giving me any clue as to its reality". His stay in England was no longer useful to the King. He wants to return to France, to his duties as a deputy, especially "as the July 14th period, according to the decrees of the Assembly, seems to remind me of it even more imperiously"... He indicates at the end that he has sent copies of this letter to the King and La Fayette. [Philippe-Égalité will return to Paris on July 7].