Arrighi de Casanova ( Jean-Toussaint). Signed... - Lot 1 - Osenat

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Arrighi de Casanova ( Jean-Toussaint). Signed... - Lot 1 - Osenat
Arrighi de Casanova ( Jean-Toussaint). Signed autograph letter[to Joseph Bonaparte]. S.l.,[1840]. 3 pp. in-4 "I think you should have no regrets about not having tried g[ener] al Bertrand instead, public opinion will only pronounce itself more strongly against him following the protest or action you consider appropriate against him. We will be grateful to you for the care and generosity you have shown towards your brother's companion in exile, and we will blame G[ener]al Bertrand even more for having betrayed all his duties towards the emperor and towards you.... Before leaving Paris, I did everything possible to prepare the opinion of the editors of the various newspapers... The question now is: what will be their direction because almost all of them are subsidized by the Court or the Ministry.... I cannot remind you enough... the recommendation I have already had the honour of making to you several times, to keep you and Prince Louis on your guard, to burn your papers, and to assure you that they are known to no one. You can't be too suspicious, because it seems we both know what you're doing and say, as well as the people around you... "One of the adventures of the emperor's will. In 1821, Napoleon I bequeathed his arms to his son, but Austria refused to allow them to be handed over to him, and they remained in the possession of Louis Joseph Marchand, one of the executors of his will. After the death of the Duke of Reichstadt in 1832, there was a long controversy between the great Marshal Bertrand and the Bonaparte family over whether these weapons should go to the Bonaparts or Marie-Louise - and therefore to Austria. On June 4, 1840, a few months before the return of the ashes, Bertrand finally handed over the imperial sword to Louis-Philippe I, provoking outraged protests from Joseph and Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte. Cousin of Napoleon I who made him Duke of Padua in 1808, General Arrighi de Casanova was commissioned by the Bonaparte family, who were absent from F
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