CAULAINCOURT (ARMAND-LOUIS-AUGUSTIN DE).
Autograph letter signed [to Marshal Lannes]. KRASNOYE, November 16 [1812]. One p. in-4.
RARE LETTER FROM RUSSIA.
"Madame la duchesse, monsieur votre frère vous aura sûrement tranquilisé lui-même, car M. d'Albignac... me annonce qu'il est parti pour Wilna [Maurice-François de Castelnau d'Albignac, Gouvion-Saint-Cyr's chief of staff in Russia, to which belonged colonel and future general Louis Guéheneuc, brother of the marshal, who was reportedly wounded in the arm at the Berezina].
WE ARE STILL MARCHING, THE WEATHER IS COLD; THE EMPEROR'S HEALTH HAS NEVER BEEN BETTER [this last sentence appears word for word in the 28th Bulletin de la Grande Armée, dated November 11, 1812, and in the 29th, dated December 3].
L'INCONCEVABLE EVENEMENT DE PARIS [LA TENTATIVE DE COUP D'ÉTAT DU GENERAL MALET] a fait nous tous penser à l'inquiétude où aurait pu être l'impératrice si l'ordre n'avait pas été si promptement rétablabli.
I found in Smolensk the good chocolate we owe to your kindness. Accept, Madam Duchess, with the homage of all my feelings, that of my respect... "
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