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KELLERMANN FRANÇOIS CHRISTOPHE: (1735-1820) Marshal of France, Duc de Valmy. A.L.S., ` Le Gral Kellermann´, one page, 4to, Paris, 15th February 1795, to citizen Alexander, Commissair General of the Sambre & Meuze army, in French. An interesting letter by Kellerman, referring to General Alexandre Dumas, father of the author of The Count of Montecristo, stating in part `... J´ai prévenu vos désirs et les miens en vous demandant en qualité de commissaire général pour les armées des Alpes et d´Italie. Dubois Crancé ne m´a pas paru très disposé à me l´accorder. Cependant je persiste et je vais me joindre Dumas pour renouveler ma demande. J´espère qu´elle sera d´autant plus efficace que ce représentant vient aux armées avec moi et que nous allons partir dans trois jours. Vous aurez de nos nouvelles avant de quitter Paris...´ (Translation: "... I have anticipated your desires and mine by asking you as Commissioner General for the armies of the Alps and Italy. Dubois Crancé did not seem very willing to grant it to me. However, I persist and I will join Dumas to renew my request. I hope that it will be all the more effective as this representative is coming to the armies with me and we will be leaving in three days. You will hear from us before leaving Paris...") With blank address leaf, bearing a red wax seal in good condition with the initials of Kellerman. VG Edmond-Louis Dubois de Crancé (1747-1814) French General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (1762-1806) was a Creole General, from the French colony of Saint-Domingue, in the Revolutionary France. Father of Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) the writer and author of The Count of Montecristo. Dumas commanded 53,000 troops as the General-in-Chief of the French Army of the Alps. Dumas's victory in opening the high Alpine passes in 1794, short before the present letter was written, enabled the French to initiate their Second Italian Campaign against the Austrian Empire.
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KELLERMANN FRANÇOIS CHRISTOPHE: (1735-1820) Marshal of France, Duc de Valmy. A.L.S., ` Le Gral Kellermann´, one page, 4to, Paris, 15th February 1795, to citizen Alexander, Commissair General of the Sambre & Meuze army, in French. An interesting letter by Kellerman, referring to General Alexandre Dumas, father of the author of The Count of Montecristo, stating in part `... J´ai prévenu vos désirs et les miens en vous demandant en qualité de commissaire général pour les armées des Alpes et d´Italie. Dubois Crancé ne m´a pas paru très disposé à me l´accorder. Cependant je persiste et je vais me joindre Dumas pour renouveler ma demande. J´espère qu´elle sera d´autant plus efficace que ce représentant vient aux armées avec moi et que nous allons partir dans trois jours. Vous aurez de nos nouvelles avant de quitter Paris...´ (Translation: "... I have anticipated your desires and mine by asking you as Commissioner General for the armies of the Alps and Italy. Dubois Crancé did not seem very willing to grant it to me. However, I persist and I will join Dumas to renew my request. I hope that it will be all the more effective as this representative is coming to the armies with me and we will be leaving in three days. You will hear from us before leaving Paris...") With blank address leaf, bearing a red wax seal in good condition with the initials of Kellerman. VG Edmond-Louis Dubois de Crancé (1747-1814) French General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (1762-1806) was a Creole General, from the French colony of Saint-Domingue, in the Revolutionary France. Father of Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) the writer and author of The Count of Montecristo. Dumas commanded 53,000 troops as the General-in-Chief of the French Army of the Alps. Dumas's victory in opening the high Alpine passes in 1794, short before the present letter was written, enabled the French to initiate their Second Italian Campaign against the Austrian Empire.
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