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NAPOLÉON III Charles Louis Napoléon BONAPARTE (1808-1873) Empereur des Français.
L.A.S. "Napoleon Louis B" to the Count of Orsay. London, March 1, 1839. 1 p. bifeuillet in-8. Rare youthful letter of the future emperor, evoking his military works, sending to his friend two studies "[...] One is a rocket, the second a bomb, that is to say the first one is light and the other one very heavy, both very boring! [...]" He added: "I take this opportunity with alacrity to tell you how touched I am by all the marks of friendship that you and Lady Blessington do not cease to give me [...]". Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte had published in 1834 a manual of Artillery, he will write his most famous political text The extinction of pauperism, a few years later in 1844.
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NAPOLÉON III Charles Louis Napoléon BONAPARTE (1808-1873) Empereur des Français.
