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Napoleon

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Napoleon

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Auction Date:2019 Oct 10 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:15th Floor WeWork, Boston, Massachusetts, 02108, 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
LS in French, signed “Np,” three pages on two adjoining sheets, 7.25 x 9, March 19, 1808. Letter to "General Clarke," organizing the passage and lodging of his troops at Mont Cenis. In part (translated): "The stages are very badly organized from Chambéry to Mont Cenis. It is necessary that you propose to me a new distribution. The days are too strong. It is necessary to divide the space into equal days, giving a stay in Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, which is the only place on the mountain where you can stay. Once you have settled in stages for this year, you will have to inform the Minister of the Interior of the places where the new road will pass; and, in the places where the troops will stay, propose to me the construction of a small barracks to house a battalion; but these barracks must be built according to the custom of the country, and cost 40 or 50,000 francs instead of the 100,000 crowns which the great constructions of our engineers would cost. It has been submitted to me various proposals for the barracks of Lans-le-Bourg; it would be urgent for me to submit finally a definite project. I want houses for the use of the mountains, and not as they are made in Paris. Give orders for the commander of Mount Cenis to have lodging at the convent, while waiting for the barracks to be established at the convent to be made, and for the gendarmerie brigades to be lodged there. You will recommend to the officer commanding Mount Cenis to ensure that every soldier going to Italy or returning a bottle of wine is given it. I would even like to be able to give them a good soup, a half-ration of bread, and a ration of meat. It would be a small expense and would be of great consequence to the health of the soldier. I wish in winter there is a stage at Mount Cenis, especially for the conscripts and detachments of less than 300 men. The day from Lans-le-Bourg to Suze is the origin of many diseases. My intention is therefore that you give orders to the commander of Mount Cenis so that detachments of not more than 200 men will be accommodated in the convent, heated, fed and treated well. When they are more than 300 men, 300 will be established at the convent, 200 at La Poste and La Ramasse, and 200 at the Grande-Croix, which will make a battalion. This is for this year and until the 1st of June, at which time the commanders of the detachments will be masters of the road in a single day, stopping at the convent and refreshing themselves there. But next year, when the barracks will be made, and the houses I ordered, built, an entire regiment will be housed in the convent, and in the future the passage of Mount Cenis, unless there are urgent events, will be done in two days." In fine condition.