Marshal LYAUTEY takes over the management of the Colonial Exhibition.

Hubert LYAUTEY (1854.1934) Marshal of France.

Autograph letter signed to Adrien Fauchier-Magnan.

Two octavo pages on blue paper addressed to him.

[Thorey]. July 30, 1927.

"...it was impossible for me to escape..." 

Marshal Lyautey has just accepted the post of Commissioner General of the International Colonial Exhibition planned for Paris in 1931.

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“Dear Sir and Friend, Your letter touches me deeply. I don’t think I should congratulate myself – it was impossible for me to back out given the conditions in which the thing was offered and presented to me – but I don’t hide from myself that it is a high, very high office, full of difficulties and troubles. Well, we’ll see…”

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Marshal Hubert Lyautey officially accepted the position of Commissioner General of the International Colonial Exhibition on July 27, 1927, following an appointment by President of the Council Raymond Poincaré.

The International Colonial Exhibition of Paris was held from May 6 to November 15, 1931, in the Bois de Vincennes. It was inaugurated on May 6, 1931, by President Gaston Doumergue in the presence of Marshal Lyautey.