Oct 22, 2015 - Sale 2394

Sale 2394 - Lot 86

Unsold
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
DRAFT OF NAPOLÉON'S ORDER TO BUILD DEFENSES AGAINST BRITISH (NAPOLÉON.) MARET, HUGUES B. Autograph Manuscript, unsigned, retained draft of letter dictated by Napoléon to Maret, addressed to the Minister of War, in French, ordering the building or enhancement of fortifications at Elba, Capraia, various garrisons at and near Livorno, and of artillery installations in Brittany and near Nantes. 9 pages, small 4to, "The Secretary of State" stationery or blank, written on the recto and verso of separate sheets; marginal pinholes, folds. Paris, [8 June 1803]
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Text of the sent letter appears in Correspondance de Napoléon 1er, ed. Plon and Dumaine, 1861, No. 6804.