Auction Date:2011 Feb 09 @ 19:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Endorsement, in French, in another hand, and signed by Napoleon, “Np,” on a one-page 8.25 x 12 letter to Napoleon, in French, from General Drouot. Letter is dated July 1, 1814, with Drouot writing to Napoleon of a grenadier soldier requesting a leave for vacation to visit his home in the Marengo region. From Fort Ferraio, Napoleon’s reply is that if the grenadier leaves, he will not get the approval to return to Elba from the Marengo authorities. In very good condition, with a central horizontal fold, scattered toning and foxing, and a few creases.
Exile on Elba wasn’t all that bad, as during his eight month stay the one-time French emperor received a personal escort of 1,000 men, a household staff, and rule over island’s 110,000 people as ‘Emperor of Elba.’ He was reluctant, however, to permit any vacation leave, out of a concern that the soldier would not be allowed to return. In the end, that one extra man probably would not have made much difference in his rule: Napoleon escaped Mediterranean paradise less than a year later, only to be defeated at the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815.
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