Theodore D. Buhl collection, 1769-1821 (inclusive).

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Theodore D. Buhl collection, 1769-1821 (inclusive).

Correspondence, 385 portraits, and other papers relating to Napoleon I. Included are letters to and from other monarchs, Napoleon's generals and military aides, statesmen associated with his administration, and other contemporary notables, collected by Theodore Buhl. Includes material relating to his family, particularly Josephine and Marie Louise.

2 linear ft. (2 boxes)

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SNAC Resource ID: 8027420

Yale University Library

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Napoléon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821

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Napoleon Bonaparte was a general of the French Revolution (1789-1799); the ruler of France as First Consul of the French Republic from November 11, 1799, to May 18, 1804; Emperor of the French and King of Italy under the name Napoleon I from May 18,1804, to April 6,1814; and briefly restored as Emperor from March 20 to June 22, 1815. He conquered much of Europe but lost two-thirds of his army in a disastrous invasion of Russia in 1812. After his final loss to Britain and Prussia at the Battle of...

Francis II, Emperor of Austria, 1768-1835.

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Louis XVIII, King of France, 1755-1824

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Written when Comte de Provence. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Warsaw, to a cardinal, 1801 Mar. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270591606 From the description of Autograph reply signed, at foot of a memorandum from the Cardinal de Montmorency : Paderborn, 1797 Apr. 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270591970 From the description of Autograph signature to list of military promotions : Coblenz, 1792 May 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 2705927...

Bülow, Friedrich Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1755-1816

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Beauharnais, Eugène de, prince d' Eichstätt, 1781-1824.

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Soult, Nicolas-Jean de Dieu, 1769-1851

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Marshal of France. From the description of Letters signed (3) and letter (1) : Val[l]andar, Boulogne and Passau, to Berthier and other recipients, [1798 Dec. 19]-1806 June 24. and undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270861365 ...

Bonaparte, Lucien,, prince de Canino, 1775-1840

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Brother of Napoleon I. From the description of Autograph signature to order : Paris, 6 Fructidor an 8 [1800 Aug. 25]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270535593 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Viterbo, to Cav. Pier Leoni, 1821 Oct. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270530708 From the description of Autograph signature to letter : Paris, to Citizen Reguin, 28 Vendemiare an 9, (1800 Oct. 21). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270535361 From the ...

Mʹeneval, Claude Franc̜ois, baron de, 1778-1850.

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Bonaparte, Julie Maria Clary, 1771-1845.

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Paul I, Emperor of Russia, 1754-1810.

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Joachim Murat, King of Naples, 1767-1815

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Joachim Murat married Napoleon's sister Caroline in 1800 and was appointed King of Naples by Napoleon in 1808. From the description of [Letter, 1808?] juil. 19 [to] Monsieur le Ministré / Joachim Napoleon. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 298954565 Epithet: King of Naples 1808 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000985.0x000184 Marshal of France. From the description of Letter ...

Jomini, Henri, baron, 1779-1869.

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Marie Louise, consort of Napoleon I, 1791-1847.

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Fesch, Joseph, 1763-1839

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French cardinal. From the description of Letter signed : Lyons, to an unidentified senator, 1807 Jan. 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270537822 ...

Caroline Bonaparte, consort of Joachim Murat, King of Naples, 1782-1839

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Sister of Napoleon I, wife of Murat. From the description of Autograph signature to letter : Rome, to Eugene Le Bon, 1830 June 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270535326 Caroline Bonaparte was a younger sister of Napoleon I of France. She married Joachim Murat whom Napoleon made King of Naples in 1808. From the description of [Letters / Caroline Bonaparte] (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 171159816 ...

Illare, Camilla.

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Kléber, Jean-Baptiste, 1753-1800

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French general. From the description of Letter signed : Cairo, to General Dugua, 1799 Nov. 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270495026 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Rosheim, to representatives of the people of the army, 1795 Oct. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270489646 ...

Bellune, Claude Victor Perrin, duc de, 1764-1841.

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Buhl, Theodore D.,

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Metternich, Clemens Wenzel Lothar, Fürst von, 1773-1859

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Prince Clemens von Metternich was born in 1773 in Koblenz, Germany. The son of a count of the Holy Roman Empire and a countess of Austria, Metternich became an influential Austrian politician and diplomat. His legacy is two-fold. He was seen by many of his contemporaries as a foe of freedom, but has come to be recognized in the 20th century as skilled diplomat, who was able to maintain peace throughout Europe during the 19th century. From the guide to the Clemens von Metternich Lette...

Suchet, Louis-Gabriel, duc d'Albufera, 1770-1826

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Louis-Gabriel Suchet (1770-1826) s’enrôla en 1791 dans la cavalerie de la garde nationale de Lyon, sa ville natale, où il servit comme sous-lieutenant. Deux ans plus tard, il était capitaine d’une compagnie franche de l’Ardèche. Au siège de Toulon, il commandait un bataillon de ce département. En Italie, sous les ordres de Schérer, d’Augereau et de Masséna, il fut nommé chef de la 2e brigade (26 novembre 1797). Il passa ensuite à l’armée d’Helvétie, assista au traité conclu avec les cantons de B...

Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland, 1778-1846

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Brother of Napoleon I. From the description of Autograph signature to letter : Domenica, to Prof. Ciampolini, 1840 Apr. 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270535347 Louis Bonaparte was a younger brother of Napoleon I of France. Louis served in the French Army and was a General by age 25. He was made King of Holland (1806-1810). He married Hortense de Beauharnais (1802); their son became Napoleon III. From the description of [Letter 1807 Sep. 27 [to] M. Fornier, ch...

Catherine, queen, consort of Jerome, king of Westphalia, 1783-1835.

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Leclerc, Charles, 1772-1802

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Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852

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English field marshal. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Jameson Tennent, 1835 Jan. 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270856519 British statesman and army officer. From the description of Papers, 1819-1904; (bulk 1819-1850). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20273724 British general and statesman. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : to Messrs. Jones & Co., 1806 Feb. 25-1806 Mar. ...

Pius VII, Pope, 1742-1823

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Pius VII, pope from Mar. 1800 to 1823. From the description of [Letter] 1802 Iun. 12, S. M. Maj., Romae [to] Alberto Reale / Pius PP VII. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 469119376 ...

Davout, Louis Nicolas, duc d'Auerstædt et prince d'Eckmühl, 1770-1823

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Davout was a Marshall of France during the Napoleonic era and served as Minister of War from 20 Mar. 1815 to 7 July 1815. From the description of [Document] 1815 avril 26 / L. Davout. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 212210376 Napoleon's Minister of War in 1815. From the description of Rapport à sa majesté l'Empereur : to Napoleon I, 1815 May 6. (Bryn Mawr College). WorldCat record id: 25206782 Marshal of France. From the description of...

Drouot, Antoine, 1774-1847

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French general. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Pance, to "le comte de Flahaut.", [no year] Jan. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270858961 Epithet: French general Title: Comte British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000575.0x000268 ...

Bonaparte, Carlo Maria, 1746-1821.

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Sʹerurier, Jean Mathieu Philibert, 1742-1819.

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Cambronne, Pierre, 1770-1842

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French general. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Nantes, to his cousin, Lefebure Cambronne, lawyer in Saint Quentin, 1819 Jan. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270133548 ...

Baciocchi, Felix, prince de Lucques, 1762-1841.

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Rovigo, Anne Jean Marie Renʹe Savary, duc de, 1774-1883.

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LaSalle, Antoine Charles Louis, comte de, 1775-1809.

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Bonaparte, Elizabeth Patterson, 1785-1879

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Hortense, queen consort of Louis, king of Holland, 1783-1837.

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Ganteaume, Honorʹe Joseph Antonin, Comte, 1775-1818.

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Clark, Henri Jacques Guillaume, 1765-1818.

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Borghèse, Camille, 1775-1832.

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Josʹephine, Consort of Napoleon I, 1763-1814.

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Abrantes, Andoche Junot, duc d', 1771-1813.

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Poniatowski, Jʹozef Antoni, książę, 1763-1813.

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Duroc, Gerard Christophe, 1772-1813.

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Bonaparte, Paolina, 1780-1825

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Marie-Pauline was a younger sister of Napoleon I of France. She was married to General Charles Leclerc and after his death to Camillo Borghese. She posed for a partially nude sculpture by Antonio Canova as Venus Victrix. From the description of [Letters] / Pauline. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 172987661 ...

Moreau, Jean Victor Marie, 1763-1813

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Epithet: Marshal British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000754.0x00007f French general. From the description of Letter signed : Augsburg, to Ludwig, Landgrave of Hesse, 1800 July 31. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270639284 Epithet: General commanding the Army of the Rhine British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000754.0x00007e ...

Grouchy, Emmanuel, marquis de, 1766-1847

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Joseph Bonaparte, king of Naples and Sicily (1806-1808), and king of Spain (1808-1813), the eldest surviving son of Charles and Marie Bonaparte, was the brother of Napoleon. He served Napoleon on diplomatic missions and was a humane sovereign in southern Italy but faced continious rebellion as a nominated ruler in Spain where his army was decisively defeated by Wellington at Vitoria (June 1813). He spent much of his life in exile in New Jersey but settled in Florence for the last years of his li...

Brune, Guillaume-Marie-Anne, 1763-1815

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Brune was one of Napoleon Bonaparte's marshals and the ambassador to Turkey. He was the commander of many armies for Bonaparte, with whom he fell in and out of favor. Brune was finally murdered in the streets of Avignon by Royalists in 1815. From the description of Papers as French ambassador to Turkey, 1803-1805. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 78504040 From the guide to the Guillaume-Marie-Anne Brune papers as French ambassador to Turkey, 1803-1805., (Houghton Li...

Alexander I, Emperor of Russia, 1777-1825

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Lord Castlereagh was British Foreign Secretary from 1812-22. Alexander I acceded to the throne in Russia in 1801. From the description of ALS, 1819 July 23, [Tsarskoye] Selo, [Russia] to "My lord" [Viscount] Robert Stewart Castlereagh / Aléxandre. (Haverford College Library). WorldCat record id: 83806365 Alexander I, Emperor of Russia, 1801-1825. From the description of Autograph signature to military commission : St. Petersburg, 1811 Nov. 9. (Unknown). WorldCat...

Bourrienne, Louis-Antoine Fauvelet de, 1769-1834

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Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, French government official and diplomat for Napoleon, was born in 1769, at Sens, France. Bourrienne served as a diplomat in Germany for the Revolutionary Government during the 1790s. He was Napoleon's private secretary to Egypt in 1797 and his minister to Hamburg between 1804 and 1813. His tenure in Germany ended in disgrace when he was recalled to Paris for illegal activities including embezzlement and black marketeering. Bourrienne supported the monarchy a...

Gouvion Saint-Cyr, Laurent, marquis de, 1764-1830

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Bessieres, Jean-Baptiste

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Né à Prayssac, près de Cahors, en 1766, Jean-Baptiste Bessières s’engagea en 1791 et se fit remarquer en 1796 par Bonaparte qui lui donna le commandement de ses guides et l’emmena en Égypte. Il se distingua à Marengo. Maréchal d’Empire en 1804, commandant la cavalerie de la Garde en 1805, il contribua aux victoires d’Austerlitz, Friedland et Somo-Sierra. À Essling, il empêcha le centre de la Grande Armée d’être percé. À Wagram, il eut un cheval tué sous lui. Il retourna en Espagne en 1811. En 18...

Lannes, Jean, duc de Montebello, 1769-1809

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Bonaparte, François-Charles-Joseph, Herzog von Reichstadt, 1811-1832

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Son of Napoleon I. From the description of Autograph translation of a portion of Caesar and other historical exercises, 1828 Mar. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270535983 From the description of Autograph copying book of letters and other writings, 1829 Dec.-1830 Jan. (Morgan Library & Museum). WorldCat record id: 81020997 From the description of Autograph signature to military report, 1830 Jan. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270535578 ...

Bavière, Auguste Amʹelie de, 1788-1851.

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Piombino, Elisa Bonaparte Baciocchi, principessa di, 1777-1820

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Elisa was a younger sister of Napoleon I of France. He gave her the principality of Lucca (1805) and Piombino (1806) and in 1809 made her the Grand Duchess of Tuscany (until 1814). She married Felix Baciocchi, a General in the French Army. From the description of [Letters] / Elisa Baciocchi. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 171160281 ...