35 - AUGEREAU (Pierre-François-Charles). Signed letter to Pierre-Anselme Garrau, sent via his wife. Paris, 21 Brumaire, Year VIII [November 12, 1799]. 1/2 p. in-12, address on the back, a tear in the corner of the address page caused by opening the envelope.

AUGEREAU (Pierre-François-Charles). Signed letter to Pierre-Anselme Garrau, sent via his wife. Paris, 21 Brumaire, Year VIII [November 12, 1799]. 1/2 p. in-12, address on the back, a tear in the corner of the address page caused by opening the envelope. Augereau, a staunch Jacobin, did not immediately rally to Napoleon Bonaparte’s side; for example, he protected Garrau, a deputy to the Council of Five Hundred, who—as an active opponent of the coup d’état—had been expelled from the National Assembly on 19 Brumaire and was forced into hiding. It was through the intervention of Bernadotte—another general close to the Jacobins—and Joseph Bonaparte that Garrau was subsequently reinstated. “I sent someone right away to Lannes’s place, and I also sent one of my friends to Roger Ducos’s to speak with him. As soon as I receive a reply, I’ll send someone to your wife. If you don’t have a safe place to stay, I’ll find you one. Be patient, my dear comrade, and rest assured that I will share your fate. I am at your disposal, and please send me news of yourself often...” The future Marshal Lannes and the former Director Roger Ducos were fervent supporters of Napoleon Bonaparte and the coup d’état.