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Genre/Form: | correspondence dispatches History Personal correspondence Sources Correspondence |
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Named Person: | Napoleon, Emperor of the French; Napoleon, Emperor of the French |
Material Type: | Manuscript |
Document Type: | Book, Archival Material |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Napoleon, Emperor of the French; Lazare Carnot; Barthélemy Catherine Joubert; Jean-Baptiste Jourdan; Jean Victor Marie Moreau; Pierre-Anselme Garrau; Antoine-Christophe Saliceti; Charles Lacretelle; François de Pange; Georges Washington Louis Gilbert Du Motier Lafayette, marquis de; France. Directoire exécutif. |
OCLC Number: | 48927084 |
Language Note: | In French. |
Notes: | Caption title: "Extrait de lettres ou de passages interessans." In a single hand, in a tiny, tight cursive in brown ink. Contemporary limp vellum; remnants of yellow silk ties at right-hand top and bottom corners. For additional information, consult the Special Collections Info File. |
Description: | [50] leaves, bound (last leaf blank) ; 21 cm |
Other Titles: | Extrait de lettres ou de passages interessans |
Abstract:
The documents, arranged chronologically between March and Sept., 1796, consist of official dispatches between the Directory government--including Carnot, president of the Directoire executif--and Napoleon's generals Moreau, Jourdan, and Joubert; dispatches supporting France from Brussels, Milan, Geneva, Rome, Madrid, and Constantinople; hostile dispatches from Vienna, Stuttgart, Basel, and London; personal letters from Republican sympathizers in Italy, Spain, Holland, and England; and anonymous texts--both printed and manuscript--which circulated clandestinely in Paris. There is even a brief excerpt from a letter written from the U.S.on Mar. 28, 1796 by George Washington Motier Lafayette, son of the French statesman and American Revolutionary War hero. Also included are Napoleon's own letters to various officials; dispatches from Saliceti and Garrau, members of the Convention; and texts by Lacretelle and François Pange. The anonymous compiler might possibly have been an associate of Lacretelle--lawyer, publicist, and chronicler--who is quoted at length; or perhaps merely a student of history, interested in the events of his own time.
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