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[ALGERIA – BUGEAUD – GALBOIS]. Algerianist manuscripts.
See original version (French)
91
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[ALGERIA – BUGEAUD – GALBOIS]. Algerianist manuscripts.
See original version (French)
Estimate €150 - €250
Voluntary lot
Description
[ALGERIA – BUGEAUD – GALBOIS]. Algerianist manuscripts. A collection of documents, presented and protected in a cream half-percale folio folder with flaps, fastened with a black silk cord.
. Marshal BUGEAUD. Letter to General Baron de GALBOIS. 9 September 1846, 2½ pages in-4, signed ‘Mal D d’Isly’. Bugeaud is leaving Paris and will be unable to discuss with the Minister of War the issue of agricultural concessions, which require better management. ‘Unfortunately, the people who drew up these conditions do not understand agriculture.’
. Extract. Logbook and military operations of the 5th Battalion of Foot Chasseurs. Battle of Bordj Boghini, 19 May 1849. One folio-sized manuscript page, certified and signed by the Battalion Commander, bearing the stamp of the 5th Chasseurs. A section of the 5th Chasseurs, delayed during its retreat, was attacked by the Kabyles. Its commander, Lieutenant Latour, led his men into hand-to-hand combat. Wounded, he would subsequently have a leg amputated.
. Appointment by Napoleon III of Baroness Marie de GALBOIS as reader to Princess Mathilde. 19 July 1869, 1 folio page.
. (African Battalion). 3 letters from Clément RONZIER, a skirmisher in the 16th Light Infantry, 3rd Battalion, stationed at Constantine and then Setif. 11 February 1853: he thanks Mr de Narbonne for investing his money; 12 May 1853: he asks him to send 15 francs as his living conditions are very difficult; on 29 September he thanks him for the 15 francs and asks to receive a further 15 francs. Numerous details on the life of a ‘Bat d’Af’. 1½ pages, 3 pages, 1½ pages in in-8 format.
. Adolphe DUPONCHEL, engineer. 2 signed letters to Mr Jacqmin, Director of the Chemin de fer de l’Est. On 3 October 1878, he sent him the Mission Report on the trans-Saharan railway project, 1½ pages in-4. – On 31 October 1878, he lists the works consulted in drawing up his project, 3½ pages in-4. 250/350
ALGERIA – BUGEAUD – GALBOIS]. Algerianist manuscripts. A collection of documents, presented and protected in a cream half-percale folio folder with flaps, fastened with a black silk cord.
. Marshal BUGEAUD. Letter to General Baron de GALBOIS. 9 September 1846, 2½ pages in-4, signed ‘Mal D d’Isly’. Bugeaud is leaving Paris and will be unable to discuss with the Minister of War the issue of agricultural concessions, which require better management. ‘Unfortunately, the people who drew up these conditions do not understand agriculture.’
. Extract. Logbook and military operations of the 5th Battalion of Foot Chasseurs. Battle of Bordj Boghini, 19 May 1849. One folio-sized manuscript page, certified and signed by the Battalion Commander, bearing the stamp of the 5th Chasseurs. A section of the 5th Chasseurs, delayed during its retreat, was attacked by the Kabyles. Its commander, Lieutenant Latour, led his men into hand-to-hand combat. Wounded, he would subsequently have a leg amputated.
. Appointment by Napoleon III of Baroness Marie de GALBOIS as reader to Princess Mathilde. 19 July 1869, 1 folio page.
. (African Battalion). 3 letters from Clément RONZIER, a skirmisher in the 16th Light Infantry, 3rd Battalion, stationed at Constantine and then Sétif. 11 February 1853: he thanks Mr de Narbonne for investing his money; 12 May 1853: he asks him to send 15 francs as his living conditions are very difficult; on 29 September he thanks him for the 15 francs and asks to receive a further 15 francs. Numerous details on the life of a ‘Bat d’Af’. 1½ pages, 3 pages, 1½ pages in 8vo format.
. Adolphe DUPONCHEL, engineer. Two signed letters to Mr Jacqmin, Director of the Chemin de fer de l’Est. On 3 October 1878, he sent him the Mission Report on the trans-Saharan railway project, 1½ pages in-4. – On 31 October 1878, he lists the works he consulted in drawing up his project, 3½ pages in-4.
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