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NAPOLEON I: (1769-1821) Emperor of France 1804-14, 1815. A fine L.S., `Napol - NAPOLEON I: (1769-1821) Emperor of France 1804-14, 1815. A fine L.S., `Napol´, (a good bold example), two pages, 4to, Paris, 17th February 1808, to the General Clarke, Minister of War, in French. Napoleon states in part `Order General of Brigade Razout who is in Paris to go to Orleans to join the division which is being created- The 43rd has reached Boulogne..´ further saying `..this battalion which did not make the Grande Armée campaign has to go via Boulogne to end reaching Le Havre..´ The text of the letter is in the hand of Meneval. Attached to the present letter and sealed to the bottom left corner a second page being an amendment annotation giving a more precise explanation regarding the battalions and regiments involved. VG £1000-1500 Henri Jacques Guillaume Clarke (1765-1818) Duc de Feltre and Minister of War under Napoleon. Later Marshal of France in 1816, one of six created under King Louis XVIII from 1815-24 Claude François de Méneval (1778-1850) Baron of the Empire. Memoirist of the 19th century. Napoleon´s private secretary and his closest collaborator.