[TURQUIE] - Lot 215

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[TURQUIE] - Lot 215
[TURQUIE] General BRUNE ambassador of the French Republic to the Sublime Porte. Set of 15 L.A.S. L.S. or P.S. mostly addressed to General BRUNE between 1802 and 1806 while he was in Constantinople as French ambassador. -1 L.S. from Major General BOUDET (1769-1809) to General BRUNE, State Councillor, ambassador of the Republic to the Sublime Porte, Paris 13/12/1802, 1 p.1/2 on printed headed paper Armée de St Domingue. General, I have been back from St Domingue for nearly fifteen days [...] one of my first cares was to take news of you when I learned your appointment to the embassy of Constantinople [...] The trip I made to Guadeloupe after the capture of St Domingue allowed me to realize some funds in the family of my wife, and I am going to place them in a land at twenty or thirty leagues from Paris [...] -1 L.S. from Major General BOUDET (1769-1809), to General BRUNE, Paris,11/07/1803, 1 p. in-fol. on printed headed paper Army of St Domingue. -1 L.A.S.KIEFFERT to the Citizen General Ambassador, Andrinople July 23, 1803, 1 p.in-4 about a mail of the General arrived the morning [...] he gave me a letter that Mr. Verne had the goodness to write to me to announce to me that you had agreed to write in my favor to the First Consul in the most advantageous way, I am now quiet on my fate. Be persuaded, Citizen General, that I will preserve for you the most lively gratitude and the most sincere attachment. His Excellency HALET- EFFENDI is very sensitive to the friendships that you have charged me with presenting to him [...] - 1 receipt in conformity with the original, handwritten document signed BRUNE (secretary), ADANSON,KIEFFER, Pera Constantinople the 30 Prairial year 11, paper with head 'General Brune State Councillor Ambassador of the French Republic, to the Sublime Porte' [...] The citizen Kieffer appointed by our decree of 9 Prairial to accompany Halet -Effendi, ambassador of the Ottoman Porte to the French government, will receive at the chancellery of the French Legation in Pera the sum of three thousand piastres for travel expenses [...] - 1 L.A.S. PAULTRE, to General Brune, (?), 5 July 1803, 2 p.1/2 in-4 about Crimean sheep [...] I am therefore sending you my general [...] the pair of Crimean sheep that I had the honor of offering you, I was advised to take them of the year so that you can still enjoy the sight of their pretty fleece before the wool becomes large. You will know, my general, that there is only one canton in the Crimea (?) which produces such sheep; everywhere else, the species degenerates and is lost. What is the reason for this I do not know, but what I do know very well is that the skin of 15-day-old lambs sells for up to two ducats and twice that when the mother is killed to get the stillborn lamb [...]. -1 L.A.S. LEVASSOR Ferdinand to the General Ambassador, Sl. Floréal year 11, 2 p.in-4, apostille of Brune on the back 'The Citizen Le Vassor asks to leave Constantinople, granted'. It is a request for leave of an embassy employee. - A file of 8 letters from the adjutant commander LESCUIER temporarily withdrawn to Constantinople, addressed to General BRUNE then ambassador of France in this country. The letters are contained in a period folder annotated by BRUNE 'Ma nomination de Maréchal de l'Empire', 29 Floréal year 12 (which this folder must have once contained). This correspondence in which the former adjutant commander LESCUIER asks for help to the general-ambassador BRUNE starts from 14 Prairial year 11 (June 3, 1803) and ends on 14 Fructidor year 12 (Sept. 1, 1804). - L.S. LESCUIER, Buyukdéré, 14 Prairial year 11, to General in chief Brune, ambassador to the Sublime Porte in which this one explains his difficult situation and asks him to help him, 1 p.1/2 in-fol. - L.A.S. LESCUIER, Buyukdéré 23 October 1803, to General Brune, 1p.1/2 in-4. My general after having weighed well the councils which you had the goodness to give me, and to have known all the price of it, I decided to leave for Paris at the first day with my wife, my child and his nurse;I must not hide from you that I did not give up without the greatest pain the project I had made to be placed in this country, I was all the more anxious to do so since this project cost me the loss of a whole year, a painful journey and a domain that we sold for half its price [...]. - Bi- folio dated 6 Brumaire year 12 on which appear on the one hand a draft of request of assistance of LECUIER to BRUNE. 1 p.1/2 in-fol .and on the other hand the draft of a letter of the general BRUNE addressed to the Citizen Franchini First Drogman of France which was to be joined to that of LECUIER .1 p. in-folio with autograph corrections of BRUNE dated Tarapia the 6 Brumaire year 12. [...] The Adjutant Commander Lescuyer exposed me
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