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21 letters or documents concerning LETIZIA BONAPARTE's rights on Napoleon's succession, and the death of Madame Mère, 1833-1836.
Important file on Napoleon
's succession, the death of Madame Mère and her estate. *

Copy of a letter from Joseph BONAPARTE to his mother, London 24 April 1833: he invites her to give her power of attorney for the succession of the "young Napoleon" [l'Aiglon, Napoleon II], and informs her of the succession of the Emperor, giving the lawyers' opinion

on the Emperor's arms (3 p. in-4). *

Copy of a letter from Cardinal Joseph FESCH to General Arrighi, Duke of Padua, Rome December 28, 1833: Madame entrusts the general discharge to the Count of Survilliers [Joseph Bonaparte] and gives instructions concerning the arms and

other objects of the Emperor (1 p. in-4).

* L.A.S. from Cardinal FESCH, to his nephew Joseph Bonaparte, Rome 2 January 1834, on Madame's wish that the Emperor's provisions be carried out without a settlement or trial

with Laffitte (2 p. in-8, in Italian).

* 2 copies of the transaction between the Duke of PADOUE, acting for Madame Mère, and Jacques LAFFITTE

, January 8, 1834 (10 p. in-4).

* Copy of a letter from Joseph BONAPARTE to the Duke of Padua, London 20 January 1834, requesting clarification of the relationship between the rights of the Emperor's mother and the

succession of Prince Eugene (1 p. in-4).

* L.S. de l'avocat PATORNI au duc de Padoue, Paris 5 March 1834, evoking the respective rights of Madame Mère and the

SEMONVILLE couple (2 p. in-4).

* 2 successive drafts, with additions and autograph corrections, of a letter from JOSEPH BONAPARTE to his mother, March 23, 1834, referring to the cash deficit and the parliamentary proposal to amnesty

their family (5 p. in-4).

* L.S. partly autograph from Cardinal FESCH to his nephew Joseph Bonaparte, Rome 1 April 1834 (2 p. in-8, in It