Oct 22, 2015 - Sale 2394

Sale 2394 - Lot 85

Price Realized: $ 845
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(NAPOLÉON.) BEAUHARNAIS, JOSÉPHINE DE. Autograph Note Signed, twice in the third person within the text ("La C[itoy]enne Beauharnais"), to "citizen Pelet," in French, requesting the return of some tableware. 1 page, 12mo, with integral address leaf; moderate scattered staining (not affecting text), remnants of prior mounting along vertical fold on terminal page, minor faint foxing, collector's ink stamp on verso of address leaf ("Dr. Max Thorek"). Np, 1790s
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"Citizen Beauharnais prays citizen pelet to return to the bearer of this note the [breakfast set of vermeil?], which he has been happy to keep for her.
"Citizen Beauharnais complains of not seeing Citizen pelai any more, she invites him to come breakfast with her one of these mornings."