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NAPOLEON IN EGYPT Autograph endorsement signed ("Bonaparte"), Cairo, variously "5 fructidor an 6" [22 August 1798] to "10 vendémiaire" [1 October 1798] image 1
NAPOLEON IN EGYPT Autograph endorsement signed ("Bonaparte"), Cairo, variously "5 fructidor an 6" [22 August 1798] to "10 vendémiaire" [1 October 1798] image 2
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NAPOLEON IN EGYPT
Autograph endorsement signed ("Bonaparte"), Cairo, variously "5 fructidor an 6" [22 August 1798] to "10 vendémiaire" [1 October 1798]

27 October 2021, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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NAPOLEON IN EGYPT

Autograph endorsement signed ("Bonaparte"), on a letter in Arabic and French of Jullut Hakim ("estimateur des marchandises a la douane de Boulac"), forwarded, commented on and signed by Poussielgue, the paymaster general in the Mediterranean, 2 pages, folds, 8vo, Cairo, variously "5 fructidor an 6" [22 August 1798] to "10 vendémiaire" [1 October 1798]

Footnotes

A MUDDLE OVER MARBLES. Napoleon had landed at Alexandria on 1 July 1798, and reached Cairo on 24 July 24. Here a customs officer at Boulaq, Cairo, complains to him that a few days before his arrival, one Ahmed Agha Cheveikian had ordered 188 slabs of marble, decided he no longer wanted them, and failed to pay the duties. Poussielgue, Napoleon's paymaster general, confirms the accusation, reports that the slabs are presently in the courtyard of the Général en Chef where they are being smashed to pieces, and asks permission to dump them in the desert.

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