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[LITERATURE, ACADEMICS, GENERALS, MARECHAUX...] Set of approximately 30 letters and visiting cards from twentieth-century authors, most of them autographed and signed. MAC-MAHON, P. BOURGET, L. DAUDET, M. BARRES, DUC D'ORLEANS, DUCHESSE DE MONPENSIER, MARECHAL FRANCHET D'ESPEREY, E. LAMY, F. MAURIAC, CLEMENCEAU, MARECHAL FOCH, P.VALERY,M.DONNAY,J.LEMAITRE,A.BONNARD...

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[LITERATURE, ACADEMICS, GENERALS, MARECHAUX...] Set of approximately 30 letters and visiting cards from twentieth-century authors, most of them autographed and signed. MAC-MAHON, P. BOURGET, L. DAUDET, M. BARRES, DUC D'ORLEANS, DUCHESSE DE MONPENSIER, MARECHAL FRANCHET D'ESPEREY, E. LAMY, F. MAURIAC, CLEMENCEAU, MARECHAL FOCH, P.VALERY,M.DONNAY,J.LEMAITRE,A.BONNARD...

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Estim. 1 200 - 1 500 EUR

[DODE DE LA BRUNERIE (Guillaume)]. Set of approximately 30 pieces. 1793-1847. Some of these pieces glued to others in the margins. Concerning the marshal's career. - Brevet de capitaine signed by Director Étienne-François Le Tourneur and Minister of War Claude-Louis Petiet (1796); letter announcing his appointment to the rank of captain 1st class, signed by General François-Étienne Damas (Cairo, 1799); letter announcing his appointment to the post of deputy director of fortifications, signed by War Minister Louis-Alexandre Berthier (1801); letter announcing his appointment to the rank of battalion commander, signed by War Minister Louis-Alexandre Berthier (1802); brevet confirmatif de chef de bataillon, signed by Napoléon Bonaparte (secretary), countersigned by Minister of War Louis-Alexandre Berthier and Minister Secretary of State Hugues-Bernard Maret (1803); letter announcing his appointment to the rank of colonel, signed by Minister of War Louis-Alexandre Berthier (Schönbrunn, Austria, December 29, 1805); letter announcing his appointment to the rank of brigadier general, signed by Major General of the Grande Armée Louis-Alexandre Berthier (1809); 2 letters announcing his appointment to the rank of brigadier general, signed by Minister of War Henry Clarke (1809); letter announcing his appointment to the honorary rank of lieutenant-general, signed by General Pierre-Antoine Dupont de L'Étang as Minister of War (August 24, 1814); brevet de lieutenant-général, signed by Louis XVIII (scratch) and countersigned by Minister of War Nicolas Jean-de-Dieu Soult (January 31, 1815); letter announcing his appointment to the rank of lieutenant-general, autographed by Louis-Victor de Blacquetot de Caux (April 30, 1815); letter announcing his appointment to the rank of lieutenant-general, signed by War Minister Louis Nicolas Davout (May 4, 1815); letter announcing his elevation to the rank of Marshal of France (1847); extract from Louis-Philippe I's order elevating him to the rank of Marshal of France, signed by War Ministry director Marie Joseph François Mahérault (1847). - 5 military booklets: completed and signed notably during the Egyptian expedition (in Alexandria from June to October 1800), during the first Austrian campaign (in Donauwörth in Bavaria on October 22, 1805, in Stockerau near Vienna on November 23, 1805, Brünn today Brno in the Czech Republic near Austerlitz on January 2, 1806). - Service records, etc.

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

[DODE DE LA BRUNERIE (Guillaume). Set of about twenty pieces. 1807-1843. Some of these pieces glued to others in the margins. Concerning the decorations of Marshal Dode de La Brunerie. - Order of the Legion of Honor: letter announcing that Marshal Massena has requested his promotion to the Order, signed by General Nicolas Léonard Bagert Beker as Chief of the General Staff of the V Corps (Prasnitz, now Przasnysz north of Warsaw in Poland, 1807); letter announcing that Napoleon I has made him an officer (Château de Finkenstein, now Kamienec in Poland, 1807); brevet de commandeur, signed by Louis XVIII (scratch) and countersigned by, among others, Marshal Étienne Macdonald as Grand Chancellor (1817); letter accompanying the dispatch of his brevet de commandeur, signed by Marshal Étienne Macdonald as Grand Chancellor (1817); letter announcing that the Duc d'Angoulême, General-in-Chief of the Army of the Pyrenees, has appointed him Grand Officer, signed by General Armand Charles Guilleminot as Major-General of this army (Madrid, 1823); letter confirming his appointment as grand-officer, signed by Marshal Étienne Macdonald as grand-chancellor (1823); brevet de grand officier signed by Louis XVIII (scratch) and countersigned by Marshal Étienne Macdonald as grand-chancellor (1823); letter accompanying the dispatch of his brevet de grand officier, signed by Marshal Étienne Macdonald as grand-chancellor (1824); 2 letters announcing that he has been raised to the dignity of grand-croix, signed by Marshal Nicolas Jean-de-Dieu Soult as President of the Council and then Minister of War (1843); letter announcing that he has been sent the brevet de grand-croix, signed by Marshal Maurice Gérard as Grand Chancellor (1843). With an autograph color plan by Guillaume Dode de La Brunerie depicting "the disposition of the troops of the Armée des Côtes, at the camp de Boulogne, on the occasion of the distribution of the 1,700 decorations of the [Légion d'honneur] awarded by the Emperor in person" on 28 thermidor an XII [August 16, 1804]. - Ordre de Saint-Louis: letters of knighthood, document signed by Louis XVIII and countersigned by General Pierre-Antoine Dupont de L'Étang as Minister of War (June 27, 1814); letter informing him that the Duc d'Angoulême, Commander-in-Chief of the Army of the Pyrenees, has appointed him Commander, signed by General Armand Charles Guilleminot as Major-General of this army (1823). - Military Order of Maximilian Joseph of Bavaria: decree appointing him knight, signed by King Maximilian I of Bavaria (1807). - Order of Military Merit of Bavaria: letter announcing that Louis XVIII had authorized him to wear the knighthood, signed by Marshal Étienne Macdonald as Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honor (1823). - Order of Charles III of Spain: brevet de chevalier grand-croix signed by King Ferdinand VII and countersigned by several persons (1823); letter informing him that the King has confirmed the provisional authorization granted to him by the Duc d'Angoulême to wear the decoration of chevalier grand-croix, signed by Marshal Étienne Macdonald as Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honor (1824). - Order of Saint Alexander Nevsky of Russia: knighthood patent signed by Tsar Alexander I (1824, in Russian with translation attached); letter informing him that Louis XVIII had authorized him to wear the knighthood decoration (1824).

Estim. 4 000 - 5 000 EUR

DODE DE LA BRUNERIE (Guillaume and family). Important collection of approximately 850 letters and documents. 18th-19th centuries. A very important collection, rich in information about the marshal and his family, as well as the history of the Dauphiné region, where the marshal was a prominent figure. - Dode de la Brunerie (Guillaume). Set of around 130 letters to his family, including 2 from Egypt, 3 from the Marseilles lazaretto on his return from the Egyptian expedition, 2 from the Austrian campaign (October 1805 and January 1806), one from the Prussian campaign (November 1806, "... since the battle, there has been no more resistance from the Prussians... we have taken almost all the corps of the Prussian army, wholesale or retail.... it's a real hunt, we're hunting them down on all sides like wild beasts, and they're surrendering like sheep"), one from the Polish campaign (1807), 3 from Spain (1809-1810, "those enraged men from Saragossa who gave us so much trouble for two months have finally tired of a war whose relentlessness is unparalleled; they've surrendered... I do not regret this circumstance, because I took an active part in it, and I believe I contributed something to the success..."), 2 from the Russian campaign (Königsberg and Elbing, December 1812), one from Italy (March 1814, "You would like to see this Italian army in France, but it is much more useful here. It contains two enemy armies twice as numerous..."), one from Spain (1823, "We continue our triumphal march amid acclamations, dances, songs and demonstrations of all kinds of joy carried to the last degree of exaltation..."). I thought that seven years of war and occupation of Spain by the Franks and the English... had greatly changed the ideas of the Spanish people and considerably reduced the influence of the clergy on their opinion... Cities are rare in this country, and enlightened people are even rarer in cities. So the influence of the clergy had no difficulty in making this ignorant and stupefied people cry 'Long live the absolute king'..."). With a few autograph notes and drawings concerning private affairs. - Correspondence received, mainly by Guillaume Dode de La Brunerie, some 230 letters from French and foreign personalities: Grand Marshal Henri-Gatien Bertrand (1841), Minister of the Interior Lazare Carnot (1815, secretary's signature, concerning the dispatch of a copy of the Description de l'Égypte), General François Joseph Kirgener de Planta (1809-1810), Minister of the Interior Camille de Montalivet (1837), General Nicolas Oudinot (1849, thanks for congratulations on the expedition to Rome which he commanded in chief), general Joseph Rogniat (1823), general duke Ignacio Jaime de Sotomayor (1811, chamberlain and grand master of ceremonies to King Joseph Bonaparte), politician and historian Adolphe Thiers (1841, concerning the loan of documents relating to the history of the Revolution and Empire), future marshal Jean-Baptiste Philibert Vaillant (1849), and so on. Around a hundred of these letters congratulate Guillaume Dode de La Brunerie on his elevation to the rank of Marshal (1847). They are addressed to him by the future Marshal de Castellane, Baron Pierre-Paul Denniée, Charles Auguste Frossard (future general, future aide-de-camp to Napoleon III and future governor of the Prince Impérial), General Gaspard Gourgaud (Napoleon I's former companion in exile on St. Helena), General d'Empire Jean-Gabriel Marchand, General Auguste Moreau, future Marshal Adolphe Niel, Admiral Albin Roussin, future Marshal Jean-Baptiste-Philibert Vaillant, and more. Some of these letters concern the dispatch of his lithographed portrait or the writing of biographical notes. - Family correspondence: around 300 letters, including almost 110 from the marshal and a few from Count Guéheneuc, marshal Lannes' father-in-law; correspondence concerning the marshal's nephew, Guzman Dode, etc. - Miscellaneous papers, 18th-19th centuries, approx. 120 items: livre de raison et de comptes of Jean Dode, the marshal's ancestor (first half of the 18th century, bound in an in-folio parchment volume, completed by other hands), the marshal's will, the maréchale's will and inventory of her possessions, notarized documents, business letters, etc. - Printed matter, nineteenth century, approx. 70 stapled booklets: Guillaume Dode de La Brunerie, rapports et opinions à la Chambre des pairs de 1826 à 1836 (several duplicates); Auguste Moreau, Notice sur le vicomte Dode de La Brunerie, maréchal de France, 1852, 2 stapled copies, each with handwritten dispatch; a few booklets by other authors, mainly on the subjects ab

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Letters patent of viscount In the name of Guillaume Dode baron de la Brunerie, lieutenant general, inspector general of engineering. Paris, February 15, 1823 On vellum, coat of arms painted au naturel at top left. Headed "Louis par la Grace de Dieu". With green wax seal and ribbons. 44 x 62 cm. In its tin case. Provenance : -Marshal Guillaume Dode de la Brunerie, -Then descendants.

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