SECOND EMPIRE. Set of around 70 items addressed... Lot 27

SECOND EMPIRE. Set of around 70 items addressed to or from the papers of Marshal Auguste Regnaud de Saint-Jean-d'Angély, his wife Anne-Angélique Ruby, and their son-in-law Edmond Davillier. - Letters from Napoleona Elisa BACIOCCHI, daughter of Elisa Bonaparte; Julie BONAPARTE, marquise de Roccagiovine; Marie-Letizia BONAPARTE-WYSE; Leila-Flora MacDonald, marshal CANROBERT; Louise Guéhenneuc, marshal LANNES; Élisabeth de La Croix de Castries, marshal MAC MAHON ; Pauline Sándor von Szlavnica, Princess METTERNICH; Caroline Georgina Fraser, Princess MURAT; Clémence Maillères, Marshal NIEL; Sophie Valera, Marshal PELISSIER, Duchesse de Malakoff; Constance Edwige Zénaïde Suin, Marshal RANDON; Honorine Anthoine de Saint-Joseph, Marshal SUCHET; etc. - MARET (Napoléon)], Duke of Bassano. Handwritten copy, from the period, of the account of the arrival of the Imperial Prince's remains at Camden Place (Chislehurst) on July 12, 1879. - NAPOLEON III. Handwritten copy, from the period, of his open letter of May 12, 1872 to the generals who commanded at Sedan, published in Le Gaulois of May 25, 1872, in which he defends the honor of the army and his own. - REGNAUD DE SAINT-JEAN-D'ANGELY (Auguste). Handwritten copy, from the period, of his letter of resignation as commander-in-chief of the Imperial Guard, for health reasons, addressed in 1869 to the officers, non-commissioned officers and soldiers of this elite corps. - 2 printed CARTONS DE LAISSEZ-PASSER with handwritten additions, one for entry to the WOOLWICH ARSENAL, signed by General Frederick Alexander CAMPBELL, Director of Artillery, with signature of the Duke of Bassano (s.d.); the other to attend the FUNERALS OF NAPOLEON III in Chislehurst church on January 15, 1873, on behalf of Count Davillier's daughter, with black wax seal of the Grand Écuyer, General Émile Fleury. - A copy of the Journal d'Angers of January 31, 1873, reproducing the minutes of Napoleon III's funeral written by the Duc de Cambacérès.