Napoleon I's love letters to Josephine : facsimiles, 1795-1800.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Napoleon I's love letters to Josephine : facsimiles, 1795-1800.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/754864636

Consists of 27 facsimiles of 8 letters, one facsimile per sheet of the original. Each facsimile is mounted on a blank page and accompanied by a transcription of 1-4 p. (17 p. of transcription in all) and a dealer's blurb (numbered from 1511 to 1518) describing the letter. A dealer's blurb describing the whole collection is also laid in. The facsimiles were originally published as an appendix to Charles Tennant's A tour through parts of the Netherlands, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Savoy and France in the year 1821-2. The 1st, undated, letter is variously ascribed to Dec. 1795 or Mar. 1796.

1 folder (8 letters)

Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 8131072

Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

Related Entities

There are 2 Entities related to this resource.

Napoléon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69x15nw (person)

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...

Josephine, Empress, consort of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1763-1814,

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62614mm (person)

Born Marie Josephe Rose Tascher de la Pagerie on the island of Martinique, she was married to Alexandre, Vicomte de Beauharnais in 1779. He was guillotined in 1794. She was introduced to Napoleon Bonaparte in 1795 and married him in 1796. He made her his empress in 1804, but divorced her in 1810. She retired to Malmaison, her country home, where she died in 1814. From the description of [Letters] / Josephine. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 171160047 ...