Lot 228

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO NAPOLEON ("CITOYEN GENERAL")
NAPOLEON I (1769-1821, EMPEROR OF FRANCE) - MARBOT (GENERAL ANTOINE, MEMBER OF THE "COUNCIL OF FIVE HUNDRED")

Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 19 June 2019 at 12:00 BST
£875
Description
2pp., 4to, Paris, 26 floreal l'an 4 (15 May 1796), recommending Lieutenant Berenger who is seeking a transfer to Napoleon's command, excusing this distraction to "un grand general occupé de travaux d'ou dependent la destinée et la gloire d'une grande republique", and sending congratulations on recent victories, endorsement in another hand "Recommander au Gal. Berthier", signed Bonaparte
