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 ("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.
AU3407
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.
AU3411
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.
AU3412
 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
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BERTHIER, Louis Alexandre, Prince of Wagram and Neuchatel (1753-1815). French Marshal.
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 birthday.
1 page 4to in French, Fontainebleau, 2 October 1810.
Trans: "I received . . . the letter which you sent me on 17 August recounting the festivities of the 15th by the first Corps of the army. I read the details with pleasure: the unity which reigned in this instance between the French troops and the Spanish people can only have produced the best impression."
The celebrations in question were evidently in honour of Napoleon's birthday on 15 August.
Marshal Victor had been in the Peninsula for well over a year, seeing action at several battles before being repulsed by British forces at Talavera in 1809. Although some Spaniards favoured the French as liberators from a corrupt monarchy, one can only speculate as to how much of this unity between French and Spanish was genuine and how much was staged.
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