NAPOLEON’S LETTERS
AUCTION PENDING. ” REMARKAMLE CONTENTS. (Received 1.30 j p.m.) LONDON, November 4. A remarkable dossier, which is exciting curiosity among historians, contains 318 of Napoleon’s letters to the Empress Marie Louise; which are to be offered for, sale at Sotheby’s in December. They include 122 written during the 191 terrible days Of the Russian campaign. Ownership of the letters, which.it is believed will not be published, is' a secret, A brief precis' of the letters shows Napoleon nonchalant during the horrors of the retreat from Moscow, the letters devoting little attention to the loss of 90,000 men. He was apparently worrying only because the Russians may have captured some of his wife’s letters. ■ All show that Nappleon was a devout lover, telling Marie to be gay and happy and never to doubt his constant worship. The last letters of the series were ’written in Elba, andin them the fallen Emperor expresses a longing to clasp his wife and son in his arms.
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Northern Advocate, 5 November 1934, Page 5
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163NAPOLEON’S LETTERS Northern Advocate, 5 November 1934, Page 5
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