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NAPOLEON I - Secretarial letter signed
Estimate:
$800 - $1,000
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$900
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NAPOLEON I
Secretarial letter signed
and with one word added in his hand [Bonaparte], to Marshal Berthier, the Minister of War, 8 July1801 giving instructions to be sent by special courier to Murat to march on Turin.
Letter appears to follow after the Battle of Marengo citing the need to evacuate the Squares belonging to the Pope, there needs to be only 2,000 French people left. The need to put into place regulations relating to the maintenance of the troops because everything that the Pope would pay for from that date would have to be refunded straight away from 19th August 1801.
1 page, small (235 x 183mm), printed stationery with an engraved vignette by Roger after Naigeon ("Au nom du peuple français. Bonaparte I. Consul de la République"), Paris 1801.
Secretarial letter signed
and with one word added in his hand [Bonaparte], to Marshal Berthier, the Minister of War, 8 July1801 giving instructions to be sent by special courier to Murat to march on Turin.
Letter appears to follow after the Battle of Marengo citing the need to evacuate the Squares belonging to the Pope, there needs to be only 2,000 French people left. The need to put into place regulations relating to the maintenance of the troops because everything that the Pope would pay for from that date would have to be refunded straight away from 19th August 1801.
1 page, small (235 x 183mm), printed stationery with an engraved vignette by Roger after Naigeon ("Au nom du peuple français. Bonaparte I. Consul de la République"), Paris 1801.
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