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(Engraved by (James?) Neagle from a drawing by Shepperson. Headed ‘Frontispiece to Samuel’ and captioned ‘The Call of Samuel’. Engraving published 1 June 1814.)

Asks him to grant his brother Savinien Edme Fauvelet a place in the agency for providing fodder for the expedition to England (l’agence des fourrages de l’armée d’Angleterre).

(Undated. A similar request for a citizen Benoit(?) is appended in another hand. The requests have been authorised by an inscription apparently in Napoleon’s hand.)

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No. 591

Je prie le citoyen Tallien de vouloir bien m’accorder une place dans l’agence des fourrages de l’armée d’angleterre, pour mon frère le C[itoy]en Savinien Edme fauvelet.

Et une pour le Citoyen benoit {1}, Jeune homme plein de valeur et de patriotisme et a qui je dois beaucoup.

Le secrétaire du gènéral {2} Bonaparte
fauvelet Bourrienne

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The second paragraph of this note is in a different hand to the first. In the margin is written, in Bonaparte’s hand, something like ‘Recom’, i.e. recommandé. The word has been marked with an asterisk referring to the following footnote: ‘ceci est la signate ou le paraphe de Bonaparte.’ But see the note inserted in the back of the book.

{1} The end of this name is indistinct.

{2} The last two letters are written above the line and are indistinct. They may have been added slightly later.

(i) A agree to pay B £200 for his revision of the translation of Plutarch’s Lives (8 vols., 8vo), which he has been employed in for some time. B agrees to deliver four volumes of the work ready for the press by 24 June and another four by 29 September, and to correct the proofs.

Tilly-sur-Seulles.—A man has been robbed by Chouans on the road to Caen. Asks for Brigadier Le Selletier to be replaced, as he failed to keep the night patrol in the area as instructed.

(Dated 12 Germinal, an 4. Certified by Lévêque as a true copy.)

‘Spretô mundô, dulce est servire Deo.’ (Thomas à Kempis.) Dated at Jena.

(Year supplied from ESTC.)

First line: ‘Savez vous pouquoy Ovide’.

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Savez vous pouquoy Ovide
Ecrivoit si galament
il avoit lamour pour guide.
et sa plume estoit Souvent
dans un Mirliton mirliton mirlitaine
dans un Mirliton ton ton

Paris fit au trois Deesses
depouiller leur cottillons
il vit trois paires de fesses
et trois mirliton—&c:

Junon lui promet Richesse
force honneur et grand pouvoir
Pallas le don de Sagesse
Venus le Charmant espoir
d’un beau Mirliton—&c.

A cette douce parolle
On vit le Combat cesser
Car Paris estoit un drole
qui se seroit fait fesser
pour un Mirliton &c.

Ils’en fut en Diligence
faire Menelas Cocu
Les Grécs en prirent Vengence
ah! que de Sang repandu
pour un Mirliton &c.

Si Caligula dans Rome
a fait Consul son cheval
Le Regent tout ainsi comme
a fait du Bois Cardinal.
pour un Mirliton &c:

Sans tambours et Sans trompette
le Regent s’en est allé
il a laissé sa lorgnette
au Parlement pour chercher
tous les Mirliton &c

Scavez vous ce qui decide
des honneurs et des Emplois
qui au parlement precide
mesme au Conseil de nos Rois
Sont des Mirliton &c:

Je n’ay point de Compte en banque
ny de Liquidation
Si l’argent comptant me manque
Jay recours aux actions
de mon Mirliton &c

Un Perruquier sans pratique
pour dissipier Son ennui
ecrivoit sur sa boutique
on raze et l’on frize ici
tous les Mirliton &c

Mirliton est une Chose
que tous le Monde Connoit
Cependant personne N’oze
le Nommer en bon francois
on dit Mirliton Mirliton Mirlitaine
on dit Mirliton ton ton.

Engraved by W. S. Wilkinson, from a drawing by William Twopeny.

‘Fide Deo, diffide Tibi, fac propria laetus, | Cautus age, et si vis vivere, disce mori.’ Dated at Rostock. Addressed to Johann Heuppel.

(Engraved by Michael van der Gucht. It is unclear which volume of which edition this is from, though the engraver’s name does not appear in editions after 1719.)

‘Ναὶ ἔρχου κύριε Ἰησοῦ. (Revelation, xxii. 2o.) ‘Nulla salus mundo Jesum te poscimus omnes. | I, propera Judex, acceleraque diem!’ Dated at Tübingen.

(Engraved by J. Wallis from a drawing by Charles Muss.)

(Dated Friday morning. Signed ‘Cleora’. Mary is addressed as ‘Roselinda’. Marked ‘No. 3’.)

This is the first edition.

Two inscriptions on one slip, (i) on the recto, (ii) on the verso. (i) ‘Ὅσα ἐστὶν ἀληθῆ … ταῦτα λογίζεσθε.’ (Philippians, iv. 8.) Dated at Darmstadt. Numbered 397. (ii) ‘Christianus miser potest videri, non potest esse.’ (Minucius Felix.) ‘Symbolum ex S Paciano Barcinonensi. Christianus mihi nomen est, cognomen Catholicus.’ Dated at Giessen.

(Engraved by Michel Lasne.)