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Maître Jean-Paul RENOUD-GRAPPIN

25 - Jeanne Louise Genet, Madame CAMPAN (1752–1822).
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Estimate €300 - €400
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Jeanne Louise Genet, Madame CAMPAN (1752–1822). Letter from the author, 16 February 1813; 1 page, in-4. She, along with ‘our brave and good Marshal’, is acting on behalf of poor Madame de Loyauté: ‘I have provided a statement attesting to her virtuous conduct and her misfortunes; that is all I could do, the Marshal’s recommendation carries too much weight for me to add my own alongside it, but what I ought to have done as Superintendent would have been not to scrawl my endorsement, and I was wrong – my eyesight is very poor in the light’; she is prepared to send another, more legible one…
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About the sale AUTOGRAPHS & MANUSCRIPTS – PENNED BY HISTORY’S GREAT FIGURES
Auction location
Auction time 09/18/2026 at 2:00 PM
Ref. : 226165 - 106
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