Autograph Letters, Manuscripts & Historical Documents
Nov 30, 2022
Urbanizacion El Real del Campanario. E-12, Bajo B 29688 Estepona (Malaga). SPAIN, Spain
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400
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€400 - €500
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Auction took place on Nov 30, 2022 at International Autograph Auctions
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ROUGET DE LISLE CLAUDE JOSEPH: (1760-1836) French Officer of the French Revolutionary wars. Best known for being the creator of the words and music of the “Chant de Guerre pour l´Armée du Rhin“ which would become later the French National anthem La Marseilleise. A.N.S., J.Rouget de Lisle, one page, oblong 8vo, Paris, rue St Eustache nº 40, 18th October 1804, in French. The autograph receipt being a payment commitment, Rouget de Lisle stating in part `Bon pour deux cent quarante trois livres que…payera le cinq brumaire prochain… et dont je lui tiendrai compte sur son fond que j´ai. (`Paybill for two hundred and fourty three pounds that… will pay on the next 5th Brumaire… and which I will take into account in his fund which I hold..´) Overall age wear, with irregular upper edge and two pinholes, otherwise about G

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