BONAPARTE (Napoléon), 1769-1821: Patent signed by Bonaparte, First Consul of the Republic... given on 30 fructidor in the eleventh year of the Republic. Patent on parchment signed by Bonaparte, by the future Marshal Berthier, future Prince of Wagram and Prince of Neuchâtel, then Minister of War, and by Hugues-Bernard Maret, Secretary of State, future Duke of Bassano, and awarded to Joseph-Ange d'Hautpoul, raised to the rank of Major General.