Napoléon Ier (1769-1821) - Lot 101

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Napoléon Ier (1769-1821) - Lot 101
Napoléon Ier (1769-1821) 5 L.S. "Nap" or "NP", Moscow 18-28 September 1812, to Archchancellor CAMBACERES; the letters are written by Méneval; 1 page and 4 half pages in-4. [664-668] Napoleon in the Kremlin, in burning Moscow. 18 September. "The fire in the city is beginning to subside. Today I went through the main districts, it was a superb city, I say it was, because today more than half of it is consumed. We found cellars full of wine and brandy which will be of great use to us. I am lodged in the palace of the Czars, in the Kremlin which is a kind of citadel surrounded by high walls of 15 or 1800 toises of development"... September 23. "Everything is going well here. The season is neither cold nor hot. My health is very good. The fires have completely stopped"... September 24. "There is nothing new here. The fires have completely ceased, and we are firmly established in Moscow"... September 27. "There is nothing new here"... September 28. "We have nothing new here"...
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