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Documents

GRANTING OF COAT OF ARMS

Granting of Coat of Arms to the French town of Agen, with a rare full signature of Napoleon and one of Cambaceres.

STATE SEAL OF FRANCE

Red wax with silk ribbon. These seals were  attached to all important state documents and

Brevets of Ennoblement

NAPOLEON TEXT

Report from Marshal Berthier to Napoleon with five lines of text in Napoleon’s hand and his abbreviated ‘NP’ signature

NAPOLEON’S SHOES

Account of the costs associated with the making of the shoes Napoleon wore at his coronation

NAPOLEON ANECDOTES

Eighteen pages of personal notes and

anecdotes on Napoleon and those surrounding him


NAPOLEON’S WASHING

The laundry list for Napoleon's washing listing all the personal items washed and the cost, for the July 1806

NAPOLEON’S EXPENSES

Accounts kept by his 'Premier Valet', Constant, while on campaign in Germany from April to October 1809

NAPOLEON’S EXPENSES

A list of Napoleon's household accounts, kept by Constant, during the State visit to Italy in November and December 1807


KING JOSEPH

Joseph writing to Cambaceres, from Naples, thanking him for the letter he had received from him on 7th 1807


PRINCE EUGENE Writing from Moscow on the 6th October 1812 to Clarke, Duc de Feltre, Minister of War




PRINCE EUGENE ANNOUNCES THE BIRTH OF SON

Eugene writing in 1810, probably to Le Brun, to announce the birth of his first son.

ALEXANDRE BERTHIER ANNOUNCES THE BIRTH OF SON

Berthier writing in 1810, to Le Brun, to announce the birth of his first son.




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