Lot no. 224
EXPEDITION FROM EGYPT and miscellaneous. - Set of 14 letters and pieces.
Louis-Alexandre Berthier ("dans la plaine de Beda près Alexandrie", 16 messidor an VI-4 juillet 1798, 2 pieces with lower margin cut out), Louis-Charles Antoine Desaix (Samata in the Nile delta, 26 germinal an VII-15 avril 1799), Jean-Baptiste Kléber (Alexandrie, 21 messidor an VI-9 juillet 1798, with top and bottom margins cut out, date ironed, and Gizeh, 8 prairial an VIII-28 mai 1800), Jean-Jacques-Sébastien Leroy (Alexandrie, 29 prairial an VII-17 juin 1799, wetness due to prophylactic measures of the time), Jacques Menou de Boussay (Rosette, 5 thermidor an VI-23 juillet 1798), etc.
Napoleon Bonaparte (draft manuscript of letter, Klagenfurt, 1797), Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-PÉRIGORD (1799), Louis de Bourbon, marshal duc de Vendôme (1704), etc.
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Pictures credits:
Osenat / Michel Bury
See original version (French)Militaria and weapons
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