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Napoléon Ier (1769-1821)
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Napoléon Ier (1769-1821)
+ Autograph letter (draft) to HUDSON LOWE, [Sainte
Hélène 1818] | 3 pages in-8 in pencil, with many erasures and corrections (watermark G. Paine 1816| median fold repaired, lightly missing at one corner without touching the text)| a small lock of the Emperor's hair has been stuck on the fourth page.
Protest letter to the governor of St. Helena, Hudson
Lowe, to be written and signed by his faithful companion General Bertrand.
"It is not I who wrote to you first. I have been instructed by the Emperor to protest against the outrages you inflict upon him every day by Lords Reade and Baster and Sergeant Davis [Reade was Hudson Lowe's chief of staff, and Baxter his physician, whom Napoleon refused to see]: I did so in the best possible terms and in person. You wanted to write, you had to answer. I used the protocol that had been in use for three years.... You therefore put forward the protocol only to avoid the obligation to send the protest to your government, which nevertheless ordered you to send it all the complaints that would be made against you without leaving you any latitude to interpret them. ...] Since I cannot continue your correspondence without submitting to a new form contrary to my honour, find it advisable that I put an end to it. ...] It is not within the power of men to make me deny the Emperor, especially as long as he is on the bed of martyrs where you have placed him, violating the rights of the people. [...]
"Fear the rod of men and God"...
PROVENANCE Former JODIDIO collection (sale Briest, 19 November 1997, n° 40).
Goods dependent on the judicial liquidation of the Aristophil Company
The sale of the goods dependent on the Aristophil LJ by order of the TC of Paris will be confirmed 48 hours before on our site www.collectionsaristophil.com
+ Autograph letter (draft) to HUDSON LOWE, [Sainte
Hélène 1818] | 3 pages in-8 in pencil, with many erasures and corrections (watermark G. Paine 1816| median fold repaired, lightly missing at one corner without touching the text)| a small lock of the Emperor's hair has been stuck on the fourth page.
Protest letter to the governor of St. Helena, Hudson
Lowe, to be written and signed by his faithful companion General Bertrand.
"It is not I who wrote to you first. I have been instructed by the Emperor to protest against the outrages you inflict upon him every day by Lords Reade and Baster and Sergeant Davis [Reade was Hudson Lowe's chief of staff, and Baxter his physician, whom Napoleon refused to see]: I did so in the best possible terms and in person. You wanted to write, you had to answer. I used the protocol that had been in use for three years.... You therefore put forward the protocol only to avoid the obligation to send the protest to your government, which nevertheless ordered you to send it all the complaints that would be made against you without leaving you any latitude to interpret them. ...] Since I cannot continue your correspondence without submitting to a new form contrary to my honour, find it advisable that I put an end to it. ...] It is not within the power of men to make me deny the Emperor, especially as long as he is on the bed of martyrs where you have placed him, violating the rights of the people. [...]
"Fear the rod of men and God"...
PROVENANCE Former JODIDIO collection (sale Briest, 19 November 1997, n° 40).
Goods dependent on the judicial liquidation of the Aristophil Company
The sale of the goods dependent on the Aristophil LJ by order of the TC of Paris will be confirmed 48 hours before on our site www.collectionsaristophil.com