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NAPOLEON I: (1769-1821) Emperor of France 1804-14, 1815. A very good L.S., `Np - NAPOLEON I: (1769-1821) Emperor of France 1804-14, 1815. A very good L.S., ` Np ´, one page, 4to, Fontainebleau, 22nd January 1813, to Prince Eugene Napoleon ( 'Mon fils' ) (“ My son”) , in French. Napoleon forwards to Eugene de Beauharnais an important information he has just received and according to it sends urgent orders, stating ` Mon fils, vous garderez le Comte Dumas avec toute l´administration. On ne nous a pas encore écrit que Desgenettes était mort; nous ne le savons qu´indirectement. Nommez parmi les médecins qui sont a l´armée un médecin pour faire les fonctions de médecin en chef. Faites renfermer tous les hopitaux dans les places fortes. Renvoyez sur Magdebourg tous les médecins et chirurgiens inútiles´ (“My son, you will keep Count Dumas with all the administration. We have not yet been told that Desgenettes is dead; we only know this indirectly. Appoint among the doctors who are in the army a doctor to perform the functions of chief doctor. Contain all the hospitals within the strongholds. Send all useless doctors and surgeons back to Magdeburg”) Napoleon was wrongly reported on Desgenettes´ death who in fact had been taken prisoner by the Russians on December 10 th , a month before this letter was written. A letter of very interesting content. VG   Eugene de Beauharnais (1781-1824) Duke of Leuchtenberg. French Prince, the first child and only son of Empress Josephine, the first wife of Napoleon I, by her marriage to Alexandre de Beauharnais. Napoleon formally adopted Eugene as his son. Regarded by historians as the ablest of Napoleon's relatives, Prince Eugene commanded the Army of Italy and served as Viceroy of Italy under his stepfather.   René Nicolas Dufriche-Desgenettes (1762-1837) Baron Desgenettes. One of the most renowned French military doctors. Desgenettes was the chief doctor of the Grande Armée and was present in Egypt, Russia and Waterloo under Napoleon, later appointed chief doctor of Les Invalides. Desgenettes was taken prisoner at Vilnius on 10th December 1812 during the retreat from Russia, he was the only one captured that day mentioned by name as worth being freed. Tsar Alexander I freed him when he heard of the care he had taken of Russian soldiers and had him escorted by his Cossack guard to the French forward-lines at on 20th March 1813.