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213 - LETTER FROM A SOLDIER. - DUBREUIL (P.-FELIX). "ONE AWAITS TH…
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LETTER FROM A SOLDIER. - DUBREUIL (P.-FELIX). "ONE AWAITS THE KING OF WESTPHALIA, PRINCE JEROME BROTHER OF BONAPARTE...". Autograph letter signed to his father at Gouville-sur-Mer in the département of La Manche. Magdebourg [in Prussia], 18 January 1808. 2 pp. 1/2 in-4, address on spine; margin missing on second leaf with damage to several words. " ... We are still at work in Maddebour and we are quite inconvenienced by the service every working day, every day at 4 o'clock... and especially since the fifteenth day that the king of Vesphalis, Prince Gérôme fraire de Ponapart, who is crowned king of his country here, has been awaited. He is due to come in two days. HERE IS WHERE THE CEREMONY BEGINS. HERE IS THE CANNON THAT IS ROARING LOUDLY. It's a very curious thing to see all the cannons that have been here... since it's been 9 months since they left on convoys for the Franc, here are more than a thousand batost that have left here, we're told that there must be 29,000 Frenchmen left in the country for the King. This means that we will be there for three years...".
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About the sale The Empire at Fontainebleau - Second day
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Auction time 06/21/2026 at 10:30 AM
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Michel Bury and Henri du Cray
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