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Napoléon Ier (1769-1821)

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Napoléon Ier (1769-1821)
10 L.S. " Napoleon ", " Napole " or " Nap ", 7 april-22 november 1806, to Archchancellor CAMBACÉRÈS| the letters are written by Méneval (the 4th by Fain)| 2 pages and 8 half-pages in-4.
[249-252, 254-255, 257-260]
Campaign of Prussia, from Paris to Berlin. At the head of the letters, starting from the 4th, Cambaceres noted: "to copy entirely".
Paris April 7. Announcement of the "marriage of the Princess Stéphanie Napoleon with the Electoral Prince Charles Louis Frederic of Baden", which Cambaceres will have to proceed as Archchancellor, on April 7, "in our
Imperial Palace of Thuileries"...
Saint-Cloud August 5. About the mayor of Bordeaux and his deputies. "My intention is besides not to suffer in these places men opposed to the operations of the government, & brothers-in-law of agitators"...
Mayence September 28. He arrives at Mainz "after having remained twelve hours in Metz. I am in very good health. The Empress is also very well"... - September 29. "Colonel Arrighi can provide the entire Palace guard, since he has the dragoons| but it would be necessary to reduce this guard. In general, Paris must be accustomed to not seeing so many sentries. This is the way to remove the 6,000 men I left there and to be able to send them to the frontiers, to Boulogne or elsewhere if circumstances require it"...
Wurzburg, October 5. "I have been in Wurtsburg for two days. I am lodged in the palace of the Grand Duke. He & his principality are behaving very well| he is providing his contingent. The armies are under observation| they will soon come to blows. For the rest, no diplomatic explanation"...
Bamberg October 7. "Mr. Prince de Bénévent [TALLEYRAND] will send you my communications to the Senate, they will make known to you the state of the question. You will see in them the claims of the Berlin Court. It is a real delirium. Hostilities began on the 7th. I made my troops enter the country of Bareuth"...
Imperial camp of Dessau October 22. My Cousin, I passed the Elbe. All my affairs are going well. The King of Prussia, all his army and the Nation
are crying out for peace. I will probably be in
Berlin in a few days. I noticed that the same day that you made your publication in the Senate, I won the great battle of Iena"...
Potsdam October 25. "I approve that the national guards of the Roer, the Ourte and the lower Meuse have not been summoned. The King of
Holland [Louis Bonaparte] was wrong to make these demands. There is nothing more dangerous & less appropriate. The King of Holland does not know the spirit of these departments"... - October 26. "I send you a piece that is from the other world. If the authors are not madmen, they are scoundrels who must be severely punished"... - October 26. "The
King of Naples [Joseph Bonaparte] sends two thousand galley slaves to Italy.
I order that one thousand remain in Italy, that five hundred be sent to
Corsica to work on the roads and to be distributed among the inhabitants, and that the other five hundred be sent to the marshes of Rochefort"...