LANNES (JEAN). Set of 5 autograph letters signed to his wife Louise Guéheneuc. 1806. - Probably Maisons, today Maisons-Laffitte], "this Thursday" [probably March 1806]. "I am very sorry not to see you, my good Louise. If it hadn't been for the bad weather, I could have gone to Paris on Monday and not come back without you... Give my love to our little children. I'm very happy that you tell me the little one will be pretty. Adieu ma belle, I can't tell you how much I love you..." (one p. in-4, address on spine; small tear to address leaf due to opening without damage to text). Louise Guéhenneuc had just given birth to their daughter Joséphine on March 4, 1806. - "Beurbourg" [probably for Würzburg], "le 5 8bre" [1806]. "I'm having deer driven by a [s]erg[en]t from Quiot's regiment. Tu verras... de les faire aller jusqu'à Étoge [property of Louise Guéhenneuc's parents, in the Marne département] et de là à Paris après quelques jours de repaux..." (3/4 p. in-4; address on spine; small tear in address leaf due to opening, but no damage to text). Marshal Lannes was a member of Empress Josephine's retinue, who was visiting Mainz at the time. The future general Joaquim-Jérôme Quiot Du Passage, Lannes' aide-de-camp during the Austerlitz campaign, had been colonel of the 100th infantry regiment in the V corps of the Grande Armée under the orders of the same Lannes since December 2, 1805. "WE ARE ON THE MARCH NIGHT AND DAY. MY CORPS IS CROSSING THE ELBE RIGHT NOW...". - Dessau [between Leipzig and Berlin], October 21 [1806]. "I can't give you my news... as I would like. We [are] on the march night and day. My corps is crossing the Elbe right now, and I hope we'll be in Berlin in five days. THE ENEMY ARMY SINCE THE LAST BATTLE [IENA] HAS DISAPPEARED. I don't see that we can have another battle...". (one p. in-4, address on spine; small tears to address leaf due to opening without damage to text). IN PURSUIT OF THE DEBRIS OF THE PRUSIAN ARMY - Löcknitz, "à dis lieux de la mer" [in Prussian Pomerania, now in Germany, east of Stettin today Szczecin in Poland], [November 1, 1806]. "I'm doing well,... WE ARE STILL MAKING A LOT OF PRISONERS, another six thousand this evening, here are 30 thousand prisoners we have made since yesterday. ALL WE HAVE TO DO NOW IS TAKE A SMALL CORPS THAT IS BLOCKED TO GET THE WHOLE PRUSSIAN ARMY...". (3/4 p. in-4, address on spine, vestige of red wax seal; tears to address leaf due to opening without damage to text). Napoleon I had sent five of his marshals in pursuit of the routed Prussian army. Murat and Lannes were to take charge of General de Hohenlohe, who was trying with his troops to rally his king in East Prussia: they caught up with him on October 28, 1806 at Prenzlau, where he was already fighting with General Lasalle, and defeated him completely, taking many prisoners. "WE TOOK THE WHOLE PRUSSIAN ARMY, THAT IS, OVER ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY THOUSAND MEN...". - Stettin [Prussian Pomerania, now Szczecin in Poland], [early November 1806]. After the battle of Prenzlau, Marshal Lannes let the men rest for a few days, to reconstitute his army's logistics, while having his light cavalry beat the Prussian country between the Oder and Vistula rivers. "I write to you very often, my dear friend, and I don't understand why you don't receive my letters. I have received four of your letters by courier from my corps. I don't need to tell you, my dear friend, what a pleasure they were... I'm with my corps in Stettin, from the shores of the Baltic Sea. I DON'T KNOW IF THE EMPEROR WILL MAKE PEACE, all I can tell you [is] that we [have] taken the whole Prussian army, that is more than one hundred and twenty thousand men. Thus, there will not be another shot fired with this nation...." (folio, address on spine; address leaf almost detached with tears due to opening without affecting the text). The future general Jean Guillaume Barthélemy Thomières was then adjutant-commandant on the staff of the 5th corps under Marshal Lannes. COMPLETE CARD TO BE FOUND IN THE CATALOG