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BIRTH OF THE KING OF ROME, AIGLON, March 20, 1811....

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BIRTH OF THE KING OF ROME, AIGLON, March 20, 1811. Letter signed Count Louis Philippe de SÉGUR, (1753 - 1830) Grand Master of the Ceremonies of France. This Friday 22 March 1811. 1p in-folio - " Monsieur le Comte (probably to the Comte de Pierre de MONTESQUIOU-FEZENSAC Grand Chamberlain of the Emperor and King Napoleon I). I have the honor to inform you that in all the ceremonies which are in my attributions, I make a note which I address to His Excellency Mr. Duke of BASSANO, to be inserted in the Monitor. I invite Your Excellency to kindly write one of what happened yesterday for the reverences and to ask the Duke of Bassano to have it inserted tomorrow, before the report which I am going to send him, of the receptions which took place today. I beg your Excellency to indicate well in this note the order in which the various people were admitted to make their curtseys. - 1p in-folio.