Napoléon Ier (1769-1821) - Lot 17

Lot 17
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Napoléon Ier (1769-1821) - Lot 17
Napoléon Ier (1769-1821) L.S. with an autograph note "affectionately Bonaparte", Saint-Quentin 21 pluviôse IX [February 10, 1801], to the Consuls in CAMBACÉRÈS and LEBRUN; the letter is written by Bourrienne; 2 pages in-4, engraved vignette with the name of Bonaparte Ist Consul of the Republic (foxing). [43] Voyage a Saint-Quentin. He arrived in Saint-Quentin the day before, "at 4 o'clock after midday. I have been all morning on horseback to visit the canal. The weather is cold, and it has snowed a lot here. All that I saw of the project and the beginning of execution of the canal of St Quentin seems to me satisfactory. I went down the stairs into the basement. The nature of the land has the double advantage of making the souterrein canal easy to execute and yet of not generally needing to be supported by a vault. The very interesting factories of the city of St Quentin and its surroundings, which employ 70,000 workers and bring in more than 15 million in cash to France, have declined by five sixths. We would like our ladies to put linen in fashion without giving muslin an absolute preference. The idea of reviving one of our most interesting manufactures and that we possess exclusively and to give bread to so many French families is well made effect to put in fashion the batistes; besides is there not already long enough the linens are in disgrace?
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