Large set of letters from Caulaincourt Louis, Marquis de, Du - Lot 269

Large set of letters from Caulaincourt Louis, Marquis de, Duc de Vicence, general and diplomat: - Approximately 46 letters, mostly private, spanning the years 1808 to 1820, including a rare autograph letter signed to Madame de Rayneval, addressed from Smolensk, dated August 21, 1810. - A handwritten document on the origin of the Caulaincourt family, 14 pages. - Documents relating to Camille Caulaincourt. - Three engraved portraits with notes, two of the Duc de Vicence and one of Auguste Jean Gabriel de Caulaincourt jeune. - Two Assignats des Domaines Nationaux (1791) and a promise of territorial mandate from Year IV. First Empire, Restoration period. Good condition. CAULAINCOURT, general and diplomat, ambassador to Russia in 1807; he followed the Emperor to Russia and returned with him by sleigh; in 1814, he was Napoleon I's representative at the Congress of Châtillon, born in Caulaincourt (Aisne) in 1772, in 1827.