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LOTE 879:

NAPOLEON I: (1769-1821) Emperor of France 1804-14, 1815. L.S. `Nap´, one page, 4to, Paris, 24th November 1810, to ...

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NAPOLEON I: (1769-1821) Emperor of France 1804-14, 1815. L.S. `Nap´, one page, 4to, Paris, 24th November 1810, to the Duke de Feltre, in French. Napoleon refers to General Garreau´s defeat in Catalogne and complaints about the lack of precise information received, stating `..you have not sent to me any report about the army in Catalogne. I do not even know what General Garreau has lost in his Puycerda affair..´ further explaining what he intends to do saying `It is necessary to make an apportionment of what is remaining in this army in order to designate which Corps can take out of there Marshal MacDonald, which troops must remain at Puycerda to control our borders and what can General Baraguey d´Hilliers keep at the Haute Catalogne.´ A letter of very interesting content. The present letter is in the hand of Napoleon´s secretary Meneval. Accompanied by the original small 12mo holograph receipt. VG Louis Gareau (1769-1813) French General during the French Revolution and first Empire. He was in charge of the French border with Spanish Catalogne in 1810-11. Etienne Jacques Macdonald (1765-1840) Marshal of France. Duc de Tarante. Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers (1764-1813) French General of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Claude François de Méneval (1778-1850) Baron of the Empire. Memoirist of the 19th century. Napoleon´s private secretary and his closest collaborator.