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CAULAINCOURT (ARMAND-LOUIS-AUGUSTIN DE). Autograph letter signed [to Marshal Lannes]. Moscow, October 11 [1812]. One p. in-4. RARE LETTER FROM MOSCOW by the Grand Écuyer, recounting in his Souvenirs his return from Russia by sleigh with the Emperor. "Madame la duchesse, the excellent chocolate arrived at a time when I was so overwhelmed that my gratitude was silent so as not to speak of my misfortunes to one who knows so well how to love her own. NOTHING CAN CONSOLER ME FOR THE LOSS OF MY BROTHER [AT THE BATTLE OF MOSKOVA], and the distance in which I live from all my family adds to it by the worry that my unfortunate mother's health gives me. She will only live through tears, as we have just lost M. d'Aubusson the younger near Drissa. The letter announcing this new misfortune is dated September 12. I am told that M. Guéheneuc is doing well [the marshal's father, François-Scholastique Guéheneuc, then a senator]. Behold my indiscretion, Madame la Duchesse, I speak only of my sorrow when all I wanted to offer you was my thanks. Please forgive my indiscretion and accept with kindness the homage of my respect..." The Grand-Écuyer's brother, cavalry general Auguste Jean Gabriel de CAULAINCOURT, led the 5th cuirassiers to capture the great redoubt at the battle of La Moskowa, but was killed in the action. He was married to Henriette Blanche d'AUBUSSON de La Feuillade, whose younger brother, a lieutenant in Sebastiani's corps, was wounded in Russia and for a time thought dead. - LA MARECHALE LANNES, née Louise Guéheneuc (1782-1856), was Joséphine's lady of the palace, then Marie-Louise's lady-in-waiting. Her father was made a senator and her brother an aide-de-camp to Napoleon I.

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CAULAINCOURT (ARMAND-LOUIS-AUGUSTIN DE). Autograph letter signed [to Marshal Lannes]. Moscow, October 11 [1812]. One p. in-4. RARE LETTER FROM MOSCOW by the Grand Écuyer, recounting in his Souvenirs his return from Russia by sleigh with the Emperor. "Madame la duchesse, the excellent chocolate arrived at a time when I was so overwhelmed that my gratitude was silent so as not to speak of my misfortunes to one who knows so well how to love her own. NOTHING CAN CONSOLER ME FOR THE LOSS OF MY BROTHER [AT THE BATTLE OF MOSKOVA], and the distance in which I live from all my family adds to it by the worry that my unfortunate mother's health gives me. She will only live through tears, as we have just lost M. d'Aubusson the younger near Drissa. The letter announcing this new misfortune is dated September 12. I am told that M. Guéheneuc is doing well [the marshal's father, François-Scholastique Guéheneuc, then a senator]. Behold my indiscretion, Madame la Duchesse, I speak only of my sorrow when all I wanted to offer you was my thanks. Please forgive my indiscretion and accept with kindness the homage of my respect..." The Grand-Écuyer's brother, cavalry general Auguste Jean Gabriel de CAULAINCOURT, led the 5th cuirassiers to capture the great redoubt at the battle of La Moskowa, but was killed in the action. He was married to Henriette Blanche d'AUBUSSON de La Feuillade, whose younger brother, a lieutenant in Sebastiani's corps, was wounded in Russia and for a time thought dead. - LA MARECHALE LANNES, née Louise Guéheneuc (1782-1856), was Joséphine's lady of the palace, then Marie-Louise's lady-in-waiting. Her father was made a senator and her brother an aide-de-camp to Napoleon I.

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