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NAPOLEON I (1769-1821), EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH

Lot 35
07.07.2022 17:00UTC +00:00
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ID 791810
Lot 35 | NAPOLEON I (1769-1821), EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH
Estimate value
£ 250 000 – 350 000
NAPOLEON I (1769-1821), EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH

'Bataille d'Austerlitz' [The Battle of Austerlitz]. Partly autograph manuscript dictated to General Henri-Gatien Bertrand and corrected by Napoleon, Saint Helena, [c. 1816-1818].

In French. Title page ('Bataille d'Austerlitz') and 77 leaves plus blanks, a heavily-worked draft with extensive cancellations, emendations and additions, the primary text in the hands of Bertrand and Louis-Joseph Marchand, annotations in Napoleon’s autograph (approx. 120 words) on ten pages, the folios numbered 22, 24, 25 (cancelled), 28, 29, 30, 31, 33, 35 ('Bataille d'Austerlitz – 11 frimaire') and 36 stub ('Bataille d'Austerlitz', cancelled); with three appendices comprising: partial transcription in another hand (perhaps that of Louis-Étienne Saint-Denis, 'Mamelouk Ali'), 13 leaves; notes in Bertrand's hand for an intended series of engraved plates on the composition and position of the armies at various dates, 16 leaves; and manuscript map of the battlefield in ink over pencil on tracing paper, likely by Bertrand.





Provenance

General Henri-Gatien Bertrand (1773-1844); and by descent.

Acquired by the family of the present owners at auction, Drouot, Paris, c.1975.





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