MENEVAL, Claude Francois.
Autograph Letter Signed C.Meneval, addessed Monseigneur, sending to votre Altesse a packet of dispatches, which the Emperor had partly unsealed and had found inside two or three private letters, the envelopes of which have been thrown in the fire; Meneval also sends numbers 5 and 6 of the Courier de Paris which have arrived this day.
In French. 1 page 9 x 7 inches, in good condition, small catalogue label pasted upper right. - Osterode [Germany], 17 March(?), no year given. Claude Francois Meneval (1778-1850), Baron de Méneval, Napoleon's private secretary (1802-1813), author of Mémoires pour servir à l'Histoire de Napoléon depuis 1802 jusqu'à 1815.
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