Lot 85
Napoleonic Wars -- French Army and Navy Collection of 30+ Letters Including Kleber and Leclerc, Most Having English Translations. Collection of 30+ letters and documents signed by French generals and an admiral. Includes Charles Leclerc (1st husband of Napoleon's sister Pauline), as Gen. of Div. on République Française letterhead, June 15, 1800, LS, re supplies; Jean-Baptiste Kléber, 1798 LS to Ministry of War re travel reimbursement; Louis Marie Jacques Amalic, 1782 ALS; Bertrand Bessières,1801 LS to Minister of War re a promotion; Ennémond Bonnard, 1804 ALS as general of a division; François-Antoine Bonnet, 1795 LS as commanding general; Louis Charles Antoine Desaix (killed at Marengo), 1797 DS, a rations voucher; Pierre François de Jean, 1813 LS to the Commander of the Guard of Honor; Pierre Antoine Dupont, 1796 ALS; Mathieu Dumas, 1801 LS; Rémy Exelmans, c. 1840 ALS; Auguste Charles Flahault, 1844 ALS by Murat and Napoleon's former aide-de-camp, as ambassador to Austria; Lazare Hoche, LS; Louis Joseph Lahure, DS; M.V.N.F. LaTour-Maubourg, 1820 LS as Minister of War; Nicholas J. Maison, 1811 LS to a Marshall re lack of supplies for his forces; Armand Samuel Marescot, 1801 LS on IG Engineers letterhead; Gabriel J.J. Molitor, 1820 LS; Jean-Victor Moreau (exiled general who returned to fight France in 1812), 1812 ALS to British ambassador in US; Etienne-Marie-Antoine de Nansouty, 1808 ALS to a notary; Claude Pierre Pajol, 1808 ALS; Jean-Charles Pichergru (Gen. of Div. & Com. of the Army of the Rhine, condemned as a traitor and strangled in prison), 1793 LS; Honoré Reille, 1813 PPDS on letterhead of Com. in Chief of the Army of Portugal; Alexis Balthasar Schauemburg, 1797 PPDS as Gen. of the Army of the Rhine and Moselle; Barthelmy Louis Scherer, 1796 LS as Gen. in Chief of the Army of Italy; François-Horace Sebastiani, ALS as general; Laurent Jean François Truguet (French admiral), 1797 LS as Minister of the Navy & Maritime Prefect of Holland to Naval Commander at Bayonne; Dominique René Vandamme, 1809 LS as Gen. of Div. re the death of a soldier; Honoré Vial (Gen. of Div. and hero of the Battle of the Pyramids), 1801, ALS. General Pigeon, April 11, 1809. Items are all in fine condition. Lot should be examined personally to be fully appreciated. Collection housed in a new 20 x 17 sleeved folio with most having expert English translations. Estimated Value $3,000 - UP
The Richard A. Basler Collection.
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