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95. REVOLUTION AND FIRST EMPIRE, and miscellaneous....

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95. REVOLUTION AND FIRST EMPIRE, and miscellaneous. - Set of about twenty letters and pieces. Letter signed by Jean-Baptiste-Jules BERNADOTTE as General-in-Chief of the Army of the West (1801), passport signed by the future Marshal Louis-Alexandre BERTHIER then General-in-Chief of the Staff of the Army of Italy (1798, with superb copper-engraved header), passport signed by the Minister of War, Navy and Foreign Affairs of the Roman Republic, Dominique de BREMOND (1798), letter signed by Jean-Jacques Régis CAMBACERES as Archchancellor of the Empire (1811, "Let me have some news from you. I fear that your attack of taste will force you to stay at home... It was impossible for me to present your excuses to His Majesty... The Emperor did not come yesterday to the Council, and in the evening the small entries were not called... "), document signed by Jean-Baptiste Nompère de CHAMPAGNY as Minister of Foreign Relations concerning the Crown domain (1811), passport signed by Hugues-Bernard MARET as Minister Secretary of State (1803), letter signed by the Archbishop of Malines Dominique Dufour de PRADT as "commissaire nommé aux Grandes-Chancelleries et Grandes-Trésoreries de la Légion d'honneur et de l'Ordre de la Réunion" (1814), manuscript concerning the Paris Stock Exchange and those in the trading places with an autograph apostille from Michel-Louis-Étienne REGNAUD DE SAINT-JEAN D'ANGELY (1798), autograph letter signed by the Inspector General of Reviews Jacques Pierre Orillard de VILLEMANZY (Leipzig, 1807), old copy of a list of orders of the day concerning the Paris stock exchange from 25 January to 27 February 1814, etc. With a handwritten map, ink and watercolour highlights, representing the route of the ship United States, captain Pierre Destebecho, which took Count Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angély into exile in America in 1815, and a copper engraving concerning the future Charles XIII of Sweden (1792).

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