La Maréchale LYAUTEY. Inès de BOURGOING (1862-1953) was the daughter of BaronPhilippe La Beaume de Bourgoing, squire toNapoléon III, then inspector of theHaras service before being elected five times deputy forNièvre, and Anne-MarieDollfus, lady-in-waiting to EmpressEugénie, whose goddaughter Inès de Bourgoing was. She was a nurse and married for the second time on October 14, 1909 to Louis-HubertGonzalve Lyautey, future Marshal of France - Letter A.S. written in Vézelise (54) on August 13 (circa 1930). Expresses sympathy for his interlocutor's grief. Evokes General Weygand. Signed "La Maréchale Lyautey".

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