NAPOLEON I | letter signed, to Marshal Berthier "Mon Cousin", 27 March 1813

NAPOLEON I

LETTER SIGNED ("NAP"), TO MARSHAL BERTHIER ("MON COUSIN"), MAJOR GENERAL OF THE GRANDE ARMÉE,

ordering him to call on the Minister of War, General Clarke, and dispatch a corps of engineers as soon as possible to the Grande Armée at Frankfurt ("...voyez le Ministre de la Guerre et organisez le Corps ingénieurs Géographes à la Grande Armée. Faites les partir le plutot possible pour Francfort sur le Mein.."), 1 page, 4to (c.23.5 x 18cm), watermark: helm & orb on a shield, addressed at the lower margin ("Au Major Général"), dispatch note ("Exp le 27") and numbering at head of the page, [Paris], 27 March 1813

LITERATURE:

Not in the Correspondance de Napoéon I^er (volume XXV, 1868), but cf no. 19763 of 26 March 1813.

PROVENANCE:

Phillips, London, 30 March 2001, lot 277

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