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FRENCH OFFICER'S LETTER FROM USHACHI (NEAR VITEBSK) WITH MENTION OF NAPOLEON & HIS WIFE; 24 July 1812 EL (slight toning & wear) from Captain (later Maréchal) de Castellane (1788-1862) to his father in Paris and redirected to Nevers charged "5" with a very fine Paris "P" in triangle mark, apparently carried by Military messengers. The contents include; "Yesterday evening, the Empress came to the Service room where I was alone with Garzand[?] and said to me; 'Well, Mr. de Castellane'. I have since thought that her Majesty was perhaps going to speak to me about my excellent father, but she asked whether the ordnance officers who remained in Vilna had arrived... I am here in a kind of farm, home of some great Polish lord I am going to Kamen [a tiny village about 20 miles to the south-east of Ushachi, on the road to Vitebsk] where the emperor is ", and notes mail sent by estafettes. Good letter from the occupying French Army in Russia, which would repay full transcription and translation. Cross Reference: RUSSIA, FRANCE
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