Louis Nicolas DAVOUT
Lettre autographe signée inédite à sa femme Aimée Leclerc à l'aube du traité de Tilsit
Tilsit [Sovetsk ] 1er juillet [1807]|19 x 22.50 cm|3 pages sur une double feuille
Autograph letter signed by Marshal Davout to his wife, Aimée Leclerc. 3 pages in black ink on a double sheet. A red pencil numbering and a pencil date from a previous bibliographer at the top of the first sheet.
A lengthy missive, likely unpublished, written a week before the signing of the first Treaty of Tilsit, which ended the war against the Fourth Coalition. Confident in the successful outcome of the Prussian and Polish campaigns, Davout hopes to reunite with his wife—the sister-in-law of Pauline Bonaparte—as soon as possible; little did he know the delicate mission the Emperor would soon entrust him with, appointing him as the head of the French f
A lengthy missive, likely unpublished, written a week before the signing of the first Treaty of Tilsit, which ended the war against the Fourth Coalition. Confident in the successful outcome of the Prussian and Polish campaigns, Davout hopes to reunite with his wife—the sister-in-law of Pauline Bonaparte—as soon as possible; little did he know the delicate mission the Emperor would soon entrust him with, appointing him as the head of the French f
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