Lot 1293 , Revolutionary France, 1794-1814, i. Agency of saltpetre and powders of the Republic, Quai Malaquay 13; note of the delivery by Citizens Chartot and Delagroüe of 4496 pounds of gunpowder at 24 sous a pound for the French

Revolutionary France, 1794-1814
i. Agency of saltpetre and powders of the Republic, Quai Malaquay 13; note of the delivery by Citizens Chartot and Delagroüe of 4496 pounds of gunpowder at 24 sous a pound for the French Guards, for which £5395 4s has been paid to Citizen Hoüel, commissary treasurer; Paris, 5 Brumaire, Year 3 [26 October 1794]; Signed by Jean-Antoine Chaptal, Comte de Chanteloupe (1756-1832), chemist and minister of the interior; printed form, headed MORT AU TYRANS.

ii. Ministry of War, Office of Movement; report to the Emperor, 6 Frimaire Year 13 [27 November 1804]

Request for authority for the movement of troops proposed by the general commanding the 16th Military Division; the second regiment of infantry to be sent from Maubeuge to Valenciennes, because the second regiment of chasseurs stationed there is insufficient to provide the posts necessary for the safety of the camp of English prisoners there; other proposed movements of troops stationed at Bethune and Lille

iii. Arthur Wellesley, duke of Wellington (1769-1852); letter, in French, to [René-Nicolas Dufriche], baron Desgenettes; Paris, 13 November 1814
Would be grateful for his vote; the rheumatism is better; annotated with a prescription

In 1814 Wellington became British ambassador in Paris, and was recalled at the end of November; the Baron Desgenettes (1762-1837), a military physician who had trained partly in London, became Chief Doctor to the French Army in Egypt. during the Hundred Days he re-assumed his role as Chief Doctor of the Imperial Guard, and assisted at the battle of Waterloo.
£100-150

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