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Auction: 16043 - Autographs, Historical Documents, Ephemera and Postal History
Lot: 121

Documents
France
Joseph Fouché
1807 (18 December) secretarial letter from the Ministry of Police to Macon. The letter begins, "Les Anglais, exclus du Continent par le Consentement général de toutes les puissances, cherchent néanmoins à y introduire des émissaires politiques ou commerciaux. Il est de la plus haute importance de faire exécuter rigoureusment le Décret de Sa Majesté qui interdit toute communication avec la France au seul Ennemi qui lui reste ... (The English, excluded from the Continent by the general consent of all the powers, nevertheless seek to introduce political or commercial emissaries. It is of utmost importance to execute the Decree of His Majesty which prohibits communication with France from the only enemy that remains ...) and is signed at foot.


The address panel with handstruck "Police Générales/de l'Empire" in red with the accompanying seal in red, there is also a smudged strike of the scarce "affranchi/par etat" in red. Good to fine. Photo

Joseph Fouché, 1st Duc d'Otrante (1759 – 1820) was a French statesman and Minister of Police under Napoleon. After the proclamation of the First French Empire, Fouché again became head of the re-constituted ministry of police (July 1804), and later of Internal Affairs, with activities as important as those carried out under the Consulate. His police agents were ubiquitous, and the terror which Napoleon and Fouché inspired partly accounts for the absence of conspiracies after 1804

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