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133 - FURNITURE FROM THE ROYAL PALACE OF NAPLES.
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FURNITURE FROM THE ROYAL PALACE OF NAPLES. Set of 4 pieces. 1808. CONCERNING THE DEPARTURE OF JOSEPH BONAPARTE AND THE ARRIVAL OF JOACHIM MURAT IN NAPLES, in particular questions relating to the furniture of the Palace. - DUMAS (Mathieu). Autograph minute signed with his initials of a letter to Joseph Bonaparte. Naples, 11th June 1808. " ... I have received the orders which Your Majesty has honoured me with... I had already had LE TABLEAU DU CONCORDAT packed, I am going to send it to Lyon, and I will not fail to inform Cardinal Fesch. By order of the Queen, I have also packed the TABLES and some PRECIOUS OBJECTS that Your Maj[esté] herself had designated. I beg Your Majesty to approve and sign the draft decree attached to the report I have the honour of submitting to you... Without this decision, Mr ZANNONI and his collaborators would not be able to benefit from the kindness of Your Majesty, who wanted to ensure their payment for the work they carried out for the DESIGN AND ENGRAVING OF THE GREAT MAP OF THE KINGDOM...". (one p. in-4). Giovanni-Antonio Rizzi-Zannoni published a geographical atlas of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies in Naples from 1788 to 1812. - DUMAS (Mathieu). Minute of an autograph letter to Joseph Bonaparte. Naples, 26th June 1808. "I beg Your Majesty to accept the homage of my gratitude for the favour done me by Your Majesty in ordering his Minister of Finance to enter me in the ledger of the public debt for an annuity of four thousand ducats.... I must also thank Your Majesty for the fact that by her decree of 22 May she has deigned to include me among the members of the Royal Society of Naples...". (one p. in-4, lithographed letterhead "Le Grand Maréchal du Palais de S. M. le roi de Naples et de Sicile"). - DUMAS (Mathieu). Minute of an autograph letter to Joachim Murat. Naples, 2 September 1808. " ... I SUPPLY YOUR MAJESTY TO AGREE MY SINCERE FELICITATIONS ON HIS ADVENTION TO THE THRONE OF THE TWO-SICILES, and the expression of my regrets not to have been able to benefit from the provision by which She kindly preserved in their dignities and in their jobs that His Auguste brother and predecessor the catholic king had promoted there, If, in the present circumstances, the bonds of duty and gratitude had not given a different course to my destiny, I would have been happy to devote myself to the service of Your Majesty. She will no doubt approve of the fact that I asked and obtained from His Imperial Majesty and King [Napoleon I] to be employed as a French general officer in the Spanish Army... It was in Your Majesty's own hands that I hoped to place both my position and the account that it is my duty to give of the situation in which I have left the affairs of the Royal Household...". (4 pp. in-4). - LUCOTTE (Edme-Aimé). Autograph letter signed to Mathieu Dumas. Naples, 16 September 1808. As Grand Marshal of the Palace and First Squire, he explains in detail the rumours of a "DEMEMBERMENT OF THE PALACE OF NAPLES" since the departure of Mathieu Dumas: he evokes the question of the furniture, the porcelain services, the bed linen, the budget, by indicating the provisions taken by Joseph Bonaparte before his departure (4 pp. folio). General LUCOTTE (1770-1825) served in Italy in 1797, was called to Egypt but had to disembark in Italy because of a storm, then took part in the conquest of Naples (1805). In 1806 he joined the Neapolitan army of King Joseph Bonaparte, who made him aide-de-camp and took him with him to Spain. General Lucotte returned to French service in 1813. On General Mathieu Dumas, see no. 130 above.
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