Napoléon Ier (1769-1821)

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Napoléon Ier (1769-1821)
3 L.S. " Bonaparte ", Lille 18 messidor XI (July 7, 1803), to Consul CAMBACÉRÈS; the letters are written by Méneval; 1 page in-4 each, engraved vignettes with the name of Bonaparte I Consul of the Republic. [102, 103 and 104] He first evokes "the affair of Blachier" (secretary general of the Gard, guilty of corruption): "I believe that he is destituted". Then he is astonished by the choice of his brother (for the checking of the lists of candidates to the Legislative body and the goods of the senatorial offices): "It seems to me that the choice of Lucien is extraordinary in an object of this nature where one needed a man who took care of all the details, and of the evaluation of these goods". Then on his journey: "I left Dunkirk yesterday, and I arrived in Lille at 6 o'clock in the evening. I crossed from Dunkirk here, a country as beautiful as Lombardy, and I continued to be extremely satisfied with the public spirit, the zeal that the inhabitants show, & the superb harvests that cover the land"... He asks for information on "a man named Vincent, employed at the liquidation and who is compromised by intelligences with a man named Lesbros" (two royalist agents). He sends him "the state of the English who are in Paris. There are too many of them. Send them back to Fontainebleau or to any other small town within reach, leaving at most about forty in Paris. I believe that Lord Elgin [Thomas Bruce, Lord ELGIN (1766-1841) English ambassador to Constantinople, plunderer of the Parthenon marbles] cannot remain in Paris without inconvenience, so send him several leagues away. The presence of so many Englishmen in Paris can only do it, & really does the greatest harm there "...
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