 Letter Signed ("Ml Berthier") to the Inspector in Chief of Revenues for the Grande Armée, informing him which servicemen will or will not be eligible for bonuses paid at the end of the... etc.
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Document Signed ("Ml Al Berthier") as Minister of War, an extract from a ministerial decree setting out the desired composition of battalions.
3 pages folio in French, Osterode, 26 March 1807.
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Three Letters Signed ("Mal Alex Berthier"), the first to General Belliard, Chief of Staff at Wurzburg, the others to M. Villemanzi, Commissariat Officer at Merzburg.
1½ pages folio, Munich, 20... etc.
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Letter Signed ("alexandre") to the Duc de Bellune [Marshal Victor], expressing his pleasure at a show of harmony between French soldiers and the Spanish population when celebrating Napoleon's... etc.
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Letter Signed ("Alex. Berthier") to the Prefect of the Deux-Sèvres Department, interceding for Citizen Louis Foucher, a volunteer accused of desertion and who should have benefited from an... etc.
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BERTHIER, Louis Alexandre, Prince of Wagram and Neuchatel (1753-1815). French Marshal.
Letter Signed ("Alex Berthier") as Minister of War, a certified true copy of a letter written by the prefect of the Département of the Bouche du Rhône, Charles Delacroix, ordering the payment of 40 centimes per day to army scouts in lieu of the meat and wine which had been accorded to them
1 page folio in French on paper with a military vignette at the head of lances, a wreath and a cap. War Department, Paris, 3 fructidor an 10 [21 August 1802].
In 1802 France was enjoying a rare, brief period of peace and a prosperity brought about in part by clever economic manipulation on the part of the First Consul. In this letter, the Prefect of the Bouche du Rhône, Charles Delacroix obviously intends to save money without fear of rebellion on the part of the army scouts involved.
Charles Delacroix, whose signature has been copied as part of this certified copy, was nominally the father of the painter Eugène Delacroix. However, it is generally accepted that a simple calculation shows that he could not have fathered the painter, and the real father was almost certainly his wife's admirer, Talleyrand.
Trans: ". . . the full details of my decree of the 11th inst., announcing that 40 centimes per day will be paid to each of the scouts to replace the meat and the wine which were accorded to them by the decree of the Consul dated the 14th messidor last. The saving which will result from the measure made me decide to adopt it. I hope that it will convince you to adopt it. I send by the same courier a copy . . . to the Minister of the Interior and ask him to kindly give the orders that funds be placed at my disposal as soon as possible so that I can make payment of these 40 centimes. I would be greatly obliged if you would add your voice in this matter so that I can receipt these funds promptly. Signed Ch. Delacroix."
Slight wearing at head and foot, not affecting the attractive appearance of the document.
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