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BONAPARTE (Louis). Letter signed "Louis" as King...

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BONAPARTE (Louis). Letter signed "Louis" as King of Holland, addressed to the Secretary of State of the Imperial Family Michel-Louis-Étienne Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angély. Palais Het Loo [in Apeldoorn, Netherlands], June 7, 1808. 1/4 p. in-4. "I hasten to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the second of this month, with an expedition in form of the act [of birth] which was drawn up by you M. l'archichancelier [Jean-Jacques Régis Cambacérès] in accordance with the orders of the emperor my brother. Receive... the assurances of my consideration..." Prince Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, the future Napoléon III, son of Louis Bonaparte and Queen Hortense, was born in Paris on April 20, 1808.