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Letter from Pierre Augereau to his secretary B. Minvelle, 7 Ventôse year IX or X : autograph manuscript.

BIB_ID
458018
Accession number
MA 23946
Creator
Augereau, Pierre, 1757-1816, sender.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, by 1910.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 36.8 x 23.3 cm
Notes
With address panel and broken seal.
Removed in 1988 from an extra-illustrated copy of R.H. Horne, The history of Napoleon (London: R. Tyas, 1840-1846); PML 196675-80. Letters removed from the volumes at this time were given the accession number MA 4587, but were never formally accessioned.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan by 1910.
Summary
General Paul-Francois Charles Augereau, duc de Castiglione to B. Minvelle, his secretary requesting that he give the sum of 300,000 francs to a banker, Peregaux, for a year and then to retrieve it with the accrued interest.