Autograph Letters, Manuscripts & Historical Documents
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Nov 30, 2022
Urbanizacion El Real del Campanario. E-12, Bajo B 29688 Estepona (Malaga). SPAIN, Spain
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LEFEBVRE FRANCOIS JOSEPH: (1755-1820) Duc de Dantzig. French military commander during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, one of the original eighteen Marshals of the Empire created by Napoleon. D.S., Lefebvre, two pages, folio, Paris, 13th January 1800, to the Administrators of the Department of the Seine, in French. The partially printed document, completed in manuscript states, in part, 'Several times, Citizen Administrators, seditious gangs have dared to seize draftees….from the armed forces….such public violation of the laws is…..most punishable treason and deserves the severest repression on your part. I therefore ask you to proclaim immediately a firm resolution which will repulse force with force'. Some light age wear and minor staining to the edges and with a small area of paper loss to the lower left corner, otherwise VG
