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Lot 115
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- Lot 115
SPAIN.DOS DE MAYO L.A. from soldier CHAUVELIN, Aranda 4 May 1808, to his mother Mme de Chauvelin, in Paris; 4 pages in-4, envelope with military postmark Bau Gal Corps d'observ. des Pyrénnées Occidentales. Soldier's letter on the riot of May 2, in Madrid, against Murat's mamelukes, and its fierce repression by the French occupier, immortalized by Goya. After various family news, he speaks of the riot in Madrid: "Do not be worried, my good mother, about the details that the newspapers may give you about a popular riot which took place the day before yesterday in Madrid. Some groups of inhabitants assembled on the occasion of the departure of the Queen of Etruria had insulted some Frenchmen, who retaliated and repulsed force with force, and each one coming on both sides to the aid of his own, the snowball grew on both sides and there was a sort of fight in the city. As on the part of the Spaniards there was only cannonade, the punishment of the most mutinous soon put an end to the uproar, and all was soon restored to order. It is not a matter of worrying this event, but of teaching the populace a lesson. Here more than anywhere else they are ignorant and rude"... The Queen of Etruria left this morning with her brother the Infant Don François: "It is the fourth crowned head that we see pass in less than a month"... One joined 3 letters in Spanish, Irun 19-30 December 1813 (4 p. in-fol.), dispatches giving news of the engagements and marches of the armies in Spain, of the disease occurred in Madrid, etc.
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