Marshal Jean LANNES - Signed autograph letter
Jean LANNES, Duke of Montebello (1769 - 1809), Marshal of the Empire
Autograph letter signed to his stepfather François-Scholastique Guéhenneuc, with autograph apostille signed by his wife Louise Guéhenneuc. Lisbon 18 floréal year X (May 8, 1802); 2 pages in-4 °.
Lannes, Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary in Lisbon, instructs his father-in-law to remind First Consul Bonaparte of the money that had been promised to him before his departure: “I am worried about the letters I sent to Paris, I had no response to the dispatches with which they were responsible for the Government, although they were quite interesting. I send Louis [his aide-de-camp and brother-in-law Louis Guéhenneuc, future aide-de-camp of Napoleon I] to the First Consul and the C [itoye] n Talleyrand [Minister of Foreign Affairs] to give them letters, I l I asked to give me the answer as soon as possible. I have shown you (…) how expensive it is to live in this country [Portugal]. I hope the First Consul will give me the 150,000 ff. Truly he had promised me before my departure, I count a lot in it; I beg you, my dear friend, to speak of it to Bourienne as having been instructed at the time to tell me that it was the intention of the First Consul. Louis will tell you in the wise way with which we live, and how much are our expenses, I ask you (…) what it will be when I will be obliged to return all the facts that I have been given. I gave my beautiful saddle to the prince [regent of Portugal], he was delighted and found it beautiful; we talk a lot about a present that he should give me, we wear it above that I do not believe it, we estimate it at four hundred thousand francs, I will limit myself to half (...) … To have news of your conversation with Madame Bonaparte… ”. He also speaks of one of his brothers to whom he would like to obtain a second lieutenant's certificate, of his wife Louise, who, like him, yearns for his family, of his young son Napoleon, and finally of his friend the "brave". doctor ”Jean-Nicola Corvisart. In addition, Louise Lannes indicates that she encloses a letter for General Augereau.
Marshal Lannes was appointed Ambassador to Portugal on November 14, 1801. He moved to Lisbon on March 25, 1802 and remained in post until August 10, 1802, then from March 12, 1803 until August 1, 1804. There, he is very busy because of the English establishment in the country, the personality of their minister Lord Robert Fitzgerald, and the low maneuvers of the regent who gives him the illusion of friendship by honoring him with sumptuous gifts, such as the 'indicates Lannes in his letter, and even agreeing to be godfather to one of his sons.
Autograph letter signed to his stepfather François-Scholastique Guéhenneuc, with autograph apostille signed by his wife Louise Guéhenneuc. Lisbon 18 floréal year X (May 8, 1802); 2 pages in-4 °.
Lannes, Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary in Lisbon, instructs his father-in-law to remind First Consul Bonaparte of the money that had been promised to him before his departure: “I am worried about the letters I sent to Paris, I had no response to the dispatches with which they were responsible for the Government, although they were quite interesting. I send Louis [his aide-de-camp and brother-in-law Louis Guéhenneuc, future aide-de-camp of Napoleon I] to the First Consul and the C [itoye] n Talleyrand [Minister of Foreign Affairs] to give them letters, I l I asked to give me the answer as soon as possible. I have shown you (…) how expensive it is to live in this country [Portugal]. I hope the First Consul will give me the 150,000 ff. Truly he had promised me before my departure, I count a lot in it; I beg you, my dear friend, to speak of it to Bourienne as having been instructed at the time to tell me that it was the intention of the First Consul. Louis will tell you in the wise way with which we live, and how much are our expenses, I ask you (…) what it will be when I will be obliged to return all the facts that I have been given. I gave my beautiful saddle to the prince [regent of Portugal], he was delighted and found it beautiful; we talk a lot about a present that he should give me, we wear it above that I do not believe it, we estimate it at four hundred thousand francs, I will limit myself to half (...) … To have news of your conversation with Madame Bonaparte… ”. He also speaks of one of his brothers to whom he would like to obtain a second lieutenant's certificate, of his wife Louise, who, like him, yearns for his family, of his young son Napoleon, and finally of his friend the "brave". doctor ”Jean-Nicola Corvisart. In addition, Louise Lannes indicates that she encloses a letter for General Augereau.
Marshal Lannes was appointed Ambassador to Portugal on November 14, 1801. He moved to Lisbon on March 25, 1802 and remained in post until August 10, 1802, then from March 12, 1803 until August 1, 1804. There, he is very busy because of the English establishment in the country, the personality of their minister Lord Robert Fitzgerald, and the low maneuvers of the regent who gives him the illusion of friendship by honoring him with sumptuous gifts, such as the 'indicates Lannes in his letter, and even agreeing to be godfather to one of his sons.
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