NAPOLEON I. Piece signed " Napoleon ", countersigned... - Lot 12 - Osenat

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NAPOLEON I. Piece signed " Napoleon ", countersigned... - Lot 12 - Osenat
NAPOLEON I. Piece signed " Napoleon ", countersigned by the minister secretary of state Hugues-Bernard Maret, and by the archchancellor of the Empire, Jean-Jacques Régis CAMBACERES. Palais des Tuileries, March 1, 1810. 2 pp. on a bifeuillet in vellum, imperial wax seal under paper. ACT BY WHICH THE EMPEROR, PROTECTOR OF THE CONFEDERATION OF THE RHINE, GRANTS THE PRESIDENCY OF THIS CONFEDERATION AND THE GRAND DUCHY OF FRANKFURT TO HIS ADOPTED SON EUGENE DE BEAUHARNAIS. In 1806, Napoleon I had pronounced the dissolution of the Holy Germanic Empire, and created under its aegis a Confederation of the Rhine including new political entities such as the Kingdom of Bavaria or the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt: he had constituted this principality of Frankfurt from the possessions of Prince Carl Theodor von Dalberg (archbishop of Mainz, former archchancellor of the Holy German Empire, favorable to French policy) whom he appointed as prince-primate, that is to say, president of the diet of the Confederation of the Rhine. If Prince Eugène de Beauharnais, son-in-law of the King of Bavaria, is designated here as the successor of Carl Theodor von Dalberg (a childless clergyman) as head of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt and as prince-primate of the Confederation of the Rhine, he was not able to benefit from this princely gift: while the Confederation was dissolved in November 1813, Dalberg abdicated in favor of Prince Eugène, but the Congress of Vienna dismembered the Grand Duchy. "The acts of the Confederation of the Confederation of the Rhine, and the existing treaties having placed at our disposal the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt to form a hereditary state on the day of the death of the prince primate, we judged that we should leave no doubt as to the intention in which we are that our direct states do not go beyond the Rhine... WE HAVE, CONSEQUENTLY, RESOLVED TO CEDE AND WE CEDE, BY THE PRESENT, TO OUR DEAR SON PRINCE EUGENE NAPOLEON, ALL OUR RIGHTS ON THE GRAND DUCHY OF FRANKFURT. We intend that on the day of the death of the prince primate, he enters immediately and by right, in the full and entire possession of the principalities, seigneuries, domains and lands forming the grand duchy of Frankfurt, to enjoy them in all ownership and sovereignty with the same rights, charges and conditions as the present prince and with the same prerogatives, in particular that which is attributed to him by the tenth article of the Act of Confederation [the presidency of the Diet of the Confederation of the Rhine, attached to the title of prince primate]. The Grand Duchy of Frankfurt will be hereditary in the direct, natural and legitimate descent of our dear son Prince Eugene Napoleon, from male to male, by order of primogeniture, and to the perpetual exclusion of women. Should the said descent become extinct, which God forbid, or should the said Prince Eugene Napoleon, as Prince of Italy, be called to the Crown of this kingdom, we reserve to ourselves and to our Crown the right to exercise once again the prerogative which belongs to us by virtue of Article Twelve of the Act of Confederation [the prerogative of naming the Prince Primate at the head of the Confederation of the Rhine]..."
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