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... etc.
AU2981
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.
AU3413
 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.
AU3410
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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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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BERTHIER, Louis Alexandre, Prince of Wagram and Neuchatel (1753-1815). French Marshal.
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 amnesty, with a reply at the end of the letter explaining that the amnesty had been overturned a few days later.
2 pages folio in French on letterhead with a vignette of the Ministry of War, Paris, 5 pluviose an 11 [26 January 1803].
Trans: "Citizen Louis Foucher, volunteer in the 89th brigade, appeals, Citizen Prefect, against the order to return which has been made by the Captain of the Gendarmerie of your Department claiming that he is a deserter. Soldiers who were on furlough . . . and who were officially deserters on the 1st floreal had a right to amnesty under the law of the 24th of this month, and to be dispensed from re-joining . . . Citizen Foucher is free to return home. I would ask you to communicate the contents of this letter to the Captain of the Gendarmerie and to issue the orders required for its execution. Citizen Foucher is domiciled at Saint Cyr . . ."
It would appear that the acting Captain of the Gendarmerie was not to be so easily over-ruled, for his reply explains that "Louis Foucher . . . was arrested . . . on 12 frimaire in accordance with an order stating that the law of 24 floreal did not apply to this class of deserter; he was brought here where . . . he was given leave to freely rejoin his corps in Brussels. . . I do not know whether he has rejoined . . . but I will find out."
This letter was written at a brief period of relative peace in Europe. The Treaty of Amiens, signed in March 1802, brought a truce between France and England and saw many English visitors rush to Paris. However, a year later, the two countries were at war again and troops would, once again, have to be found.
The top right hand corner of this letter has been cut away, not affecting the text.
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