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. REICHSTADT (Napoleon François Charles Joseph...

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. REICHSTADT (Napoleon François Charles Joseph Bonaparte, duke of). Autograph letter signed "François", in French, addressed TO HIS MOTHER MARIE-LOUISE, former empress turned duchess of Parma. S.l.n.d. 1/2 p. in-4, yellowed paper. BEAUTIFUL LETTER FROM THE EAGLE, IN HIS CHILDHOOD WRITING. "I feel, my dear Mother, that my letters are still only tickets, but, kissing your hands, I beg you to believe that nobody loves you more tenderly than your very obedient son François" JOINED: LA TOUR DU PIN-GOUVERNET (Frederic-Seraphin de). Piece signed as ambassador of France in Austria. Vienna, March 20, 1815. Passport granted to the countess of Montesquiou-Fezensac "returning in France". Governess of the king of Rome, she had just been dismissed whereas Napoleon Ier had disembarked in Provence and took again the guides of the power (he entered the Tuileries precisely this March 20, 1815).