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BERTHIER LOUIS ALEXANDRE: (1753-1815), - BERTHIER LOUIS ALEXANDRE: (1753-1815), Marshal of France, Prince of Neuchatel. Chief of Staff under Napoleon. A good L.S., ` Alexandre ´, one page, 4to, Rheims, 14th March 1814, in French. The present letter is written during the Campaign of France, only one month before Napoleon´s capitulation. Berthier sends an order to the Commandant of the Sermoise military area, south of Soissons, urging him to ` …de partir à la reception du present ordre avec sa troupe pour se render aujourd´hui à Fismes, où il s´établira et restera jusqu´à nouvel ordre…´ ( Translation: ”…to depart immediately, together with his troops, and to go today to Fismes, where he will remain until new orders are given …”) Small age wear, mostly to edges, otherwise G   Napoleon I arrived to Soissons on the 12 th of March 1814, and will enter Rheims on the 14 th March, the day of the present letter. The battle of Rheims took place a day earlier, 13 th of March.