[SAINTE-HÉLÈNE]. MONTCHENU, Claude Marin... - Lot 105 - Giquello

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[SAINTE-HÉLÈNE]. MONTCHENU, Claude Marin... - Lot 105 - Giquello
[SAINTE-HÉLÈNE]. MONTCHENU, Claude Marin Henri de (1757-1831). Exceptional set of 17 N.A. written between 1818 and 1819, some of which are signed and sealed. The author writes drafts as well as his thoughts, fragments of discussions and facts reported by the closest personalities who were close to the Emperor, thus revealing the relations and the tensions which reigned on the island of Saint Helena at the time when the Marquis de Montchenu was the commissioner in the service of King Louis XVIII. One of the bills opens as follows: "Ideas for the peerage; the peace said Bonaparte is in disharmony with the present state of the spirits it wounds the pride of the army, it deceives the expectation of the partisans of the equality... Bertrand is in a total discredit, one accuses him even of being republican he has great desire to go away, and his wife much more they say it aloud and the minister answers; they have only to leave, Bertrand believes that his honor holds him here in spite of him". An interesting document attests in particular on the presence of a Russian building; commanded by a lieutenant of navy was announced on the 4 hours of the day to 30 miles approximately [...]". A letter addressed to the marquis René Eustache d'Osmond in which Montchenu informs him of his current situation; "As you have the goodness to make pay exactly all my drafts, it is right that I give you my state of situation, so that you see that you and me, exceed the credit opened by the minister". Montchenu comments in a long personal note the treaty of August 2, 1815 judging that the British government had accepted a "very great responsibility thus by naming its governor, it was necessary to invest it with a great power, it is what it did, it was necessary among other things to give him means of execution; his government did it in a way to reassure the sovereigns on the guarding of the deposit which is entrusted to him [...]". An answer to a letter of February 18, 1822 leaves the marquis of Montchenu very unhappy not to have any promotion in his rank and his distinction thus opening his letter he writes; "I return at present to the rank of lieutenant-general that to say to me that the ordinances are opposed to those that it is made no promotion to the rank of lieutenant-general [...my position is even more favorable, because the newspapers have informed me for fifteen days of the death of four lieutenants general; M de Vaubecourt, Dubarrait, Champigni and de Chabot [...] it is a rank that I ask you, this favor could be supported by six years of sufferings, of very painful deprivations of which I cannot explain the reasons in writing, I have been constantly the last eleven months between life and death [...]." Among these notes are two documents from the General Directorate of Personnel on the letterhead of the Ministry of War, which "gives notice to Mr. Montchenu (son), second lieutenant in the Queen's cuirassiers that, by order of 2. of this month, the King has appointed him to a job as Second Lieutenant in the Regiment of Hussars of the Royal Guard." Family provenance, to the present owner by succession.
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