. BONAPARTE (family) and around. Set of 4 letters. -... Lot 10

. BONAPARTE (family) and around. Set of 4 letters. - BONAPARTE (Élisa). Letter signed with 3 autograph lines to Jean-Pierre-Louis de Fontanes. [Villa Medici], Poggio a Caiano [in Tuscany], May 5, 1811. "My dear Fontanes, I am sending to Paris two deputies from my States of Lucca to congratulate the Emperor on the birth of the King of Rome and I recommend that he send you often on my behalf. They are M.M. Matteucci and Lucchesini..." Luigi Matteucci was a minister in the Government of Lucca, and Girolamo Lucchesini chamberlain to Elisa Bonaparte. Jean-Pierre Louis Fontanes, Grand Master of the Imperial University, was a close friend of Elisa Bonaparte, whom he frequented assiduously before she became Princess of Lucca and Piombino, then Grand Duchess of Tuscany (one p. in-8). - BONAPARTE (Pauline). Signed Apostille, dictated to her lady-in-waiting Jenny de Saluces (s.l., June 1811, approx. 2 pp. in-8, on paper with an embossed border on the first page) on a bill from the latter (1/2 p. in-8), all addressed to Jean-Paul Louis Michelot, a close friend of the princess and acting as her intendant in Paris. Practical recommendations and financial arrangements. - DAVOUT (Aimée Leclerc, maréchale). Autograph letter signed to her husband Marshal Louis-Nicolas Davout. S.l., January 28, 1812. Beautiful letter in which she recounts her talks with Napoleon I, who asked her to give a grand ball at her home, although she had no desire to do so; she also mentions an evening of gambling with Empress Marie-Louise. - DAVOUT (Aimée Leclerc, maréchale). Autograph letter signed to her husband Marshal Louis-Nicolas Davout. S.l., March 8, 1813. She relates an anecdote about their son Louis who, when asked about what he had read in the Journal de Paris said "Rurusse font la guerre et empêchent papa de venir. Naughty!" She also writes of meeting Queen Hortense, whom she had not seen for a long time and whom she finds changed.