"Russians make war and prevent Dad from coming.... - Lot 86 - FW Auction

Lot 86
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"Russians make war and prevent Dad from coming.... - Lot 86 - FW Auction
"Russians make war and prevent Dad from coming. Naughty! " DAVOUT (Aimée). 1782-1868. Sister of General Leclerc (†1802, Napoleon's brother-in-law), wife of the marshal. Aut. letter signed to her husband, Marshal Davout. (Paris), 8 March (1813). 3 pp. two-sheet in-8 square. Touching letter from Marshal Davout, giving news of her children. My Louis, I did not have a letter of you today. from you today. It seems to me that the dispatch rifle is taking the nasty habit of leaving only every two days from Magdebourg (…). I am not enjoying our children well in your absence. Louis is delightful, but he makes me say more than a hundred times a day if his father were to witness such kindness, he would be too happy. She sends him the Journal de Paris all torn up; (...) dear child was reading it, I asked him what it said; he told me "Rurussians are making war and preventing Papa from coming. Naughty! "he said, stamping his foot. And he tore into the paper with all the vivacity he could muster, finding it full of bad news for him. This good child is constantly busy with you (...). The marshal gives news of a relative who has come to see her and of The marshal gives news of a relative who has come to see her and of "Rosebud" who is happy at the sight of horses; she is a Josephine for intelligence (...). Jules is already laughing like a little fool (...) All the fears he has given me have made him even dearer to me (...) than when we were in danger of losing him (...). Etc. The Maréchale adds in p.s. S.M.I. have left for Trianon. I went to see Queen Hortense today. She was at the the moment of her departure for this journey. I had not seen her since my return from Stettin. I found her changed.
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