re-enjoyment

Updated: May 23, 2025

Enclosed within the present cover will be found an act of congress, of the 21st instant, authorizing these declarations, and granting a furlough for your return to France, to be extended at your own pleasure. I pray God to bless and protect you, Sir; to conduct you in safety to the presence of your prince, and to the re-enjoyment of your noble family and friends.

marquis de Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier Lafayette - Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette

Enclosed within the present cover, will he found an act of Congress of the 2lst instant, authorizing these declarations, and granting a furlough for your return to France, to be extended at your own pleasure. I pray God to bless and protect you; to conduct you in safety to the presence of your Prince, and to the re-enjoyment of your noble family and friends. I have the honor to be, &c.

Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo) Knapp - Memoirs of General Lafayette : with an Account of His Visit to America and His Reception By the People of the United States; From His Arrival, August 15th, to the Celebration at Yorktown, October 19th, 1824.