Every day Sophie Dupre presents two items from her large stock of signed photographs, autograph letters, autographs for sale, royal memoralbilia and antiquarian manuscripts.
The photographs are presented with the catalogue descriptions.
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March 09
On this day in 1796 Napoléon Bonaparte married his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais and in 1888, Wilhelm I, the German Emperor who, with his Minister President Otto von Bismarck, had achieved the unification of Germany, died and was succeeded by his son Frederick III, who only outlived his father by three months.
NAPOLEON I (1769-1821, Emperor of the French)
Minute of Decree Signed ‘Nap[oleon]’ as Emperor of the French, King of Italy, and Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine, in Italian with translation, saying that “Amnesty is granted to deserters and refractory conscripts in our Kingdom of Italy”, on condition that they report within one month of the Decree’s publication to their Municipality, where they will be directed to the appropriate Prefecture, to learn to which corps in the armed forces they are to be directed, 2 sides folio, handsome printed heading, Imperial Palace of the Tuileries, Paris, 30th December 1809, crisp
WILHELM I (1797-1888, King of Prussia and first German Emperor)
Finely penned document signed, in German with transcription and translation, to the President of Peru, (Mariano Ignacio Prado, 1826-1902, Dictator, 1865-1867, President 1867-1868 & 1876-1879), thanking him for his letter “of the 5th August last year that by the free choice of Your fellow citizens ... You were appointed President ... and assumed this honourable Office on the 2nd of the same month”, reciprocating the President’s assurance “that You will strive to cultivate and ever improve the good relations existing between Germany and the Republic of Peru”, and offering his “congratulations on Your elevation”, signed also by Bernhard Ernst von Bülow (1815-1879, the Danish and German Statesman, plenipotentiary at the Congress of Berlin) as Deputy Foreign Minister, 1 side folio, lithographed heading with MS additions and conjugate blank, Berlin, 10th April 1877
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