BONAPARTE, NAPOLEON, Emperor of France . Letter signed ("Bonaparte," with flourish), TO MINISTER OF FOREIGN RELATIONS, TALLEYRAND-PERIGORD, Paris, "24 Ventose year 6" [6 February 1798]. 1 page, 4to, 222 x 180 mm. (8¾ x 7 in.), matted and glazed in a giltwood frame incorporating an engraved portrait of Napoleon . In French. Unexamined out of frame. NAPOLEON ON THE TREATY OF RASTADT: "MY FUTURE INTERVENTION NOW BECOMES SUPERFLUOUS" Napoleon had returned to Paris in December after nearly two years absence on his Italian campaigns. In May, he would launch his expedition to Egypt and Syria. Here, he reacts with pleasure to news that a boundary question had been settled by treaty: "I have just been informed, Citizen Minister, that the empire has finally consented to take the left bank of the Rhine as [the] basis of the Treaty of Rastadt...My future intervention now becomes superfluous; I therefore request you to authorize me to have sent back from Rastadt part of my household which I had left there, my presence in Paris being essential to execute various orders of the Directoire Executif..." Napoleon served briefly as one of the French envoys to the Congress of Rastadt, in which Austria ceded all of Germany's land west of the Rhine to France. Although Napoleon played a small part during the Congress, he was credited by both the Directoire and the public for this success.
BONAPARTE, NAPOLEON, Emperor of France . Letter signed ("Bonaparte," with flourish), TO MINISTER OF FOREIGN RELATIONS, TALLEYRAND-PERIGORD, Paris, "24 Ventose year 6" [6 February 1798]. 1 page, 4to, 222 x 180 mm. (8¾ x 7 in.), matted and glazed in a giltwood frame incorporating an engraved portrait of Napoleon . In French. Unexamined out of frame. NAPOLEON ON THE TREATY OF RASTADT: "MY FUTURE INTERVENTION NOW BECOMES SUPERFLUOUS" Napoleon had returned to Paris in December after nearly two years absence on his Italian campaigns. In May, he would launch his expedition to Egypt and Syria. Here, he reacts with pleasure to news that a boundary question had been settled by treaty: "I have just been informed, Citizen Minister, that the empire has finally consented to take the left bank of the Rhine as [the] basis of the Treaty of Rastadt...My future intervention now becomes superfluous; I therefore request you to authorize me to have sent back from Rastadt part of my household which I had left there, my presence in Paris being essential to execute various orders of the Directoire Executif..." Napoleon served briefly as one of the French envoys to the Congress of Rastadt, in which Austria ceded all of Germany's land west of the Rhine to France. Although Napoleon played a small part during the Congress, he was credited by both the Directoire and the public for this success.
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