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Napoléon Ier (1769-1821)
16 L.S. "Napol," "Nap" or "NP," Dresden June 15-July 9, 1813, to Archchancellor CAMBACERES| 6 letters are written by Fain| 20 pages and 6 half-pages in-4. [711, 712, 714-724]
Sejour a Dresde, pendant la campagne de Saxe.
June 15. "I have decided that all the budgets of the communes be signed by the Regent. The Secretary of State [Maret] will indicate to you a great number of small matters which I do not have time to see and which I sign with confidence"... June 18. "I am very satisfied with everything you are doing, and you have too much experience to do anything that could seriously have any inconvenience| but men cannot constantly see alike on details. I will always continue to let you know my way of thinking, and if sometimes we differ, you must not be affected by it. - It would have been a great folly to ask for the Te Deum, while there could be no disadvantage in keeping it as it was announced. I would therefore never have blamed you for having proposed to the Empress to attend the Te Deum: only it was not in my way [...] Henceforth, I desire that there be no delay between the arrival of the news and the Te Deum, because in war events can change and consequently any delay can have inconvenience.
Then he comes to an incident which caused the Empress a headache: "To avoid that such a thing be repeated, I have prescribed the following provisions to the Duke of Vicence [Caulaincourt] acting as Grand Marshal: in the future, no ceremony, no circle will be countermanded. If there is a mass, it will be said as announced| only at the moment of saying it, it will be warned that S.M. does not leave his apartments [...] Finally, the King of Rome is here. If there had not been an order, the day in question, he would have received everyone cheerfully, and it would have been a new proof that there was no bad news"... June 21. "Mr. Auguste Choiseul, who was colonel in the guards of the King of Spain should not be in the guards of honor, if he left the service of the King without leave"... June 22. "Charge SSrs Vilmain [Villemain] and Victorin Fabre with the task of giving the funeral oration, one of the Duke of Frioul [Duroc] and the other of the Duke of Istria [Bessières]. There is no need for priests"... June 22. Long letter about the pension of the widow of DUROC, Duke of Frioul, and the endowment to her daughter, and the guardianship of the latter...". I have the right of return on these kinds of goods. Those who enjoy them are feudatories. Many of them are officers of my house, so I reserve the right to appoint or have appointed a guardian to administer the endowment in case of minority. This is outside the rules of the Napoleonic Code. In the past the King appointed guardians for the princes of his family or for persons in whom he took an interest. I am the guardian-born of all the donees, and I have a direct interest in the preservation of the endowments... Etc.
June 26. "I learn that a host of contentious issues are delaying the sale of Communal property. [It is important, in the present situation of affairs, to support the Treasury| everything else is indifferent"... June 30. "All the chatter of the Ministers about peace does the greatest harm to my business, for everything is known and I have seen more than 20 letters from foreign Ministers who write home that peace is wanted at all costs in Paris| that my Ministers tell me this every day &c. This is how peace can be made impossible, and the fault lies especially with the Minister of Police [Savary]. It would be necessary that instead of this pacific tone, one should take a warlike tone. [...] I know very well that a peace which would not be in conformity with the opinion which one has in France of the strength of the Empire, would be very badly seen by everyone"... July 1. On the subject of the situation in Spain. "The question is closed in these two hypotheses: either the King [JOSEPH] was beaten| or the business could be restored. - If the King has been defeated, that he cannot remain in Pamplona and that there is fear of seeing him return, it is the case of sending him someone to whom you must not conceal that, given the bad spirit that he has shown in Spain, I would fear that his presence would sow trouble with regard to the Regency. - If the King had been successful and had succeeded in re-establishing affairs, my intention would still be the same: I would still desire that he leave the command of which he is absolutely incapable| that he hand it over to the Duke of Dalmatia [SOULT] and that he remain in Vittoria or Pamplona"... July 3. "There is nothing new here. The negotiations have not yet begun: I suppose that they will begin on the 5th or 6th"... - With the pieces which M. de Choiseul has given, there is nothing to say. I do not see any difficulty in his being employed in the Guards of Honor.
16 L.S. "Napol," "Nap" or "NP," Dresden June 15-July 9, 1813, to Archchancellor CAMBACERES| 6 letters are written by Fain| 20 pages and 6 half-pages in-4. [711, 712, 714-724]
Sejour a Dresde, pendant la campagne de Saxe.
June 15. "I have decided that all the budgets of the communes be signed by the Regent. The Secretary of State [Maret] will indicate to you a great number of small matters which I do not have time to see and which I sign with confidence"... June 18. "I am very satisfied with everything you are doing, and you have too much experience to do anything that could seriously have any inconvenience| but men cannot constantly see alike on details. I will always continue to let you know my way of thinking, and if sometimes we differ, you must not be affected by it. - It would have been a great folly to ask for the Te Deum, while there could be no disadvantage in keeping it as it was announced. I would therefore never have blamed you for having proposed to the Empress to attend the Te Deum: only it was not in my way [...] Henceforth, I desire that there be no delay between the arrival of the news and the Te Deum, because in war events can change and consequently any delay can have inconvenience.
Then he comes to an incident which caused the Empress a headache: "To avoid that such a thing be repeated, I have prescribed the following provisions to the Duke of Vicence [Caulaincourt] acting as Grand Marshal: in the future, no ceremony, no circle will be countermanded. If there is a mass, it will be said as announced| only at the moment of saying it, it will be warned that S.M. does not leave his apartments [...] Finally, the King of Rome is here. If there had not been an order, the day in question, he would have received everyone cheerfully, and it would have been a new proof that there was no bad news"... June 21. "Mr. Auguste Choiseul, who was colonel in the guards of the King of Spain should not be in the guards of honor, if he left the service of the King without leave"... June 22. "Charge SSrs Vilmain [Villemain] and Victorin Fabre with the task of giving the funeral oration, one of the Duke of Frioul [Duroc] and the other of the Duke of Istria [Bessières]. There is no need for priests"... June 22. Long letter about the pension of the widow of DUROC, Duke of Frioul, and the endowment to her daughter, and the guardianship of the latter...". I have the right of return on these kinds of goods. Those who enjoy them are feudatories. Many of them are officers of my house, so I reserve the right to appoint or have appointed a guardian to administer the endowment in case of minority. This is outside the rules of the Napoleonic Code. In the past the King appointed guardians for the princes of his family or for persons in whom he took an interest. I am the guardian-born of all the donees, and I have a direct interest in the preservation of the endowments... Etc.
June 26. "I learn that a host of contentious issues are delaying the sale of Communal property. [It is important, in the present situation of affairs, to support the Treasury| everything else is indifferent"... June 30. "All the chatter of the Ministers about peace does the greatest harm to my business, for everything is known and I have seen more than 20 letters from foreign Ministers who write home that peace is wanted at all costs in Paris| that my Ministers tell me this every day &c. This is how peace can be made impossible, and the fault lies especially with the Minister of Police [Savary]. It would be necessary that instead of this pacific tone, one should take a warlike tone. [...] I know very well that a peace which would not be in conformity with the opinion which one has in France of the strength of the Empire, would be very badly seen by everyone"... July 1. On the subject of the situation in Spain. "The question is closed in these two hypotheses: either the King [JOSEPH] was beaten| or the business could be restored. - If the King has been defeated, that he cannot remain in Pamplona and that there is fear of seeing him return, it is the case of sending him someone to whom you must not conceal that, given the bad spirit that he has shown in Spain, I would fear that his presence would sow trouble with regard to the Regency. - If the King had been successful and had succeeded in re-establishing affairs, my intention would still be the same: I would still desire that he leave the command of which he is absolutely incapable| that he hand it over to the Duke of Dalmatia [SOULT] and that he remain in Vittoria or Pamplona"... July 3. "There is nothing new here. The negotiations have not yet begun: I suppose that they will begin on the 5th or 6th"... - With the pieces which M. de Choiseul has given, there is nothing to say. I do not see any difficulty in his being employed in the Guards of Honor.