[Henri-Gatien, comte BERTRAND (1773 - 1844) général, grand-maréchal du Pal

[Henri-Gatien, comte BERTRAND (1773 - 1844) general, grand-maréchal du Palais, Napoleon's companion on St. Helena]. Approximately 80 letters from or about Martinique, addressed to General BERTRAND (some to his son Arthur), with numerous autograph notes or minutes of reply, 1827-1844. Interesting file on the general's trip to and stay in Martinique| the Dillon estate (his wife's family)| the island's economy and the general's memoir Sur la détresse des
colonies| the collapse of the Fort-Royal hospital| various commissions and recommendations, etc. Letters from Constant d'Abzac, H. Beaufond (des Trois-Ilets), Billouin (de Bordeaux), Brière de Bretteville (Macouba), Brière de l'Île (Frégate), Dizac (with poem on Napoleon), M. d'Escoublant (Fond Moustique), M. de Fitz-James, P.C. Jouannet (poem on Napoleon), H. de La Borderie (owner in Pointe à Pitre), Emmanuel de Las Cases, Latuillier (du Lamantin), Baron de Mackau (5), E. Martineau (Saint-Pierre), Admiral de Mogel (Governor of Martinique, 5), Jules Paulin, Pocquet de Luppé (Saint-Pierre), F. Rivière (Fort-Royal), Vicomte de Rosily, Sinson Saint-Albin (Trinité), G.D. de Sanois (Saint-Pierre, invitation to chair a commission to erect a statue to Empress Joséphine), Vidal de Lingendes (Attorney General in Martinique), Vicomte de Villarson, etc.