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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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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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 ("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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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.
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BERTHIER, Louis Alexandre, Prince of Wagram and Neuchatel (1753-1815). French Marshal.
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 Austerlitz campaign.
1 page folio in French, Munich, 14 March 1806.
Trans: ". . . regarding the payments of campaign bonuses. 1. All officers who rejoined the army since the 1st of January , that is to say after the ratification of the peace treaty, should not receive any bonuses for the campaign; this decision is based on the fact that an officer only has a right to his appointment and his campaign bonus from the time he joins his corps, he only acquires his equipment after he has joined . . . 2. All the officers who were promoted in the army after the Battle of Austerlitz equally have no right to the campaign bonus, nor to the supplement, because they were aware of the preliminaries to the peace, and will certainly not have incurred any costs to increase their equipment for the campaign."
The bonuses in question were evidently paid to help defer the costs of the various items officers would have had to purchase before rejoining their regiments. The Treaty of Pressburg, signed at the end of 1805 after the French victory at Austerlitz, marked the zenith of the French Empire.
Very slightly frayed at the top, and a little browned at the edges, but otherwise in sound condition.
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