NARBONNE-LARA (Louis-Marie de). Signed autograph... - Lot 47 - Osenat

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NARBONNE-LARA (Louis-Marie de). Signed autograph... - Lot 47 - Osenat
NARBONNE-LARA (Louis-Marie de). Signed autograph letter to Claude-Ignace Brugière de Barante. S.l.,[between 1802 and 1806]. 1 p. in-4, address on the back. "While I am leading your son to the ball, my dear Barante, what the hell do you think you are doing to go and fight the Jacobins - this is to tell you that I beg you in grace to start your fights again so that they will bring you to Versailles, Rouen, the Council, & in the meantime, If you need an aide-de-camp, I highly recommend you Mr Bontemps, who will give you my letter - very rich in the past, he is now in need of a place - there is none to whom his delicacy and ability do not give him rights. It can, I believe, be very useful to you by giving you very accurate information about things and the people you will deal with, and you will do me a real pleasure to use it and to serve it. I love you and kiss you from the bottom of my heart... "General, minister and diplomat, the Count of NarbonneLara (1755-1813) was perhaps a natural son of Louis XV. He received a careful education and entered the military career, reaching the rank of general. Minister of War in 1791-1792, he emigrated in August 1792, and did not return to France until 1801. He then exercised his talents in both military and diplomatic fields: Napoleon I's aide-de-camp in Russia, he was also ambassador to Bavaria 36 / Osenat / and Vienna. A great seducer, he had mistresses among whom, from 1788 to 1794, Madame de Staël, whose two sons Auguste and Albert were perhaps his. Then prefect of Lake Geneva, Claude-Ignace Brugière de Barante (1745-1814), of a liberal spirit but hostile to revolutionary excesses, occupied two prefecture under the Empire, including that of Geneva from 1802 to 1810, where he was in charge, among other things, of supervising Madame de Staël and the circle of Coppet emigrants - but he made friends there, which led to his dismissal. His son, the historian, diplomat and politician Prosper was Madame de Staël's lover and
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