GAULLE Charles de. L. A. S., 2 December 1946, to his son Ensign Philippe de Gaulle (in Meknès); 2 pages in-8 on the letterhead of Le Général de Gaulle (bluish stains at the top of the verso). Congratulations from the General to his son, a young knight of the Legion of Honour. "Congratulations on your Legion of Honour, of which you have been officially and legally recognised as a Knight. You can be sure that I feel a great paternal pride, all the more so as it is by your merit and courage alone that you have earned this distinction. So it was with your Bon-Papa in the '70s war, and with your father in the '14-18 war. But of the three, you were the youngest to be decorated... Such is the destiny of a proud and noble French family - ours - a destiny very symbolic of that of France itself"... LNC, II, p. 806.