NAPOLÉON Ier (1769 - 1821)

NAPOLÉON Ier (1769 - 1821)
L.S. "Napoleon", Fontainebleau April 13, 1814, to General DEJEAN| ¾ page in-4
Rare farewell letter to a faithful servant, the day after his suicide attempt.
[Paris capitulated on March 31, the Senate and the Corps Législatif voted to depose the emperor on April 3, on April 6 Napoleon abdicated and on the same day the Senate voted for the new Constitution. Napoleon tried to commit suicide during the night of April 12 to 13, 1814, and he will leave
Fontainebleau on April 20]. "Mr. General Dejean, I do not want to leave you without testifying to the satisfaction I have always had with your good services.
You will support the good opinion I have of you, by serving the new Sovereign of France with the same fidelity and the same devotion that you have shown me".
[Jean-François-Aimé DEJEAN (1749 - 1824), an engineer before the Revolution, who became a major general and then director of fortifications, made a political career during the Consulate.
Bonaparte to supervise the execution of the convention of Alexandria (1800), then the organization of the Ligurian Republic (1800-1802). He worked in France as Minister of War Administration (1802 - 1810) and his career then continued in various positions, with a short interlude after the Hundred Days. He died as a peer of France].
Attached is a L.S. from General de LA MORICIÈRE, June 14, 1865 (2 p. in-4).
(Slight wetness).