DAVOUT Aimée. (1782-1868). Sœur du général Leclerc... Lot 41
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DAVOUT Aimée. (1782-1868). Sœur du général Leclerc (†1802, beau-frère de Napoléon), épouse du maréchal.
L.A.S. to her husband, Marshal Davout. [Paris], March 8 [1813]. 3 pp. bifeuillet in-8 square.
Moving letter from Marshal Davout, giving news of her children. "My Louis, I have not had a letter from you today. It seems to me that the estafette is taking the ugly habit of leaving only every other day from Magdebourg [...]. I am not enjoying our children well in your absence. Louis is delightful, but he makes me say more than a hundred times a day that if his father were to witness such kindness, he would be too happy. She sends him the Journal de Paris all torn up; [...] This dear child was reading it, I asked him what they say; he told me "Rurussians are making war and preventing Papa from coming. Naughty!" he said, stamping his foot. And he tore up with all possible vivacity this newspaper, which he found full of bad news for him. This good child is constantly busy with you [...]". The marshal gives news of a relative who has come to see her and of "Rosebud" who is happy at the sight of the horses "She is a Josephine for intelligence [...]. Jules already laughs like a little fool [...] All the fears he gave me made him even more dear to me [...] than when we were in danger of losing him [...]". Etc.
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