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Travel to America. MONTEBELLO. Autograph letter to «ma chère petite Maman»

Bifolium in-8vo. 200x128 mm. Letter written on three pages, French text, fine handwriting, brown ink. At the end he signs "Nap." Description of the ocean voyage to South America. "Nous avons quitté Pensacola le 21 et nous avons passé le Tropique il y a quelques heures, nous ne sommes plus qu'à quelques lieux de la Havane. [...] Nous passerons la journée de demain à la Havane et nous repartirons le soir même pour La Guaira. Nous avons reçu il y a quelques instants le baptême du Bonhomme Tropique avec toutes les cérémonies usités ... J'espère que nous trouverons la Colombie dans un état plus tranquille que le Mexique, je desire beaucoup voir Bolivar ... "Napoleon-Auguste Lannes, Duke of Montebèllo, 1801 - 1874, embarked on a diplomatic career. At first attached to the embassy in Rome (1828-29), he participated in the July monarchy, which he represented in Denmark (1833), in Prussia (1833), in Switzerland (1836); then in the 1839 he was for a few days Minister of Foreign Affairs and in the 1847, Minister of the Navy. He ended his career as Napoleon III's ambassador to Petersburg (1858-66); in 1867 he became a senator.

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Travel to America. MONTEBELLO. Autograph letter to «ma chère petite Maman»

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