MOSCOW - LETTER EX SOLDIER IN THE OCCUPIED CITY WITH "Bau. G...

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372 - MOSCOW - LETTER EX SOLDIER IN THE OCCUPIED CITY WITH

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£1,400 - £2,000

MOSCOW - LETTER EX SOLDIER IN THE OCCUPIED CITY WITH "Bau. Gal./GRANDE-ARMEE" - REF. MAIL PROBLEMS, ETC.; Fine 24 Sept. 1812 EL headed from "Moscou" by a French soldier "Le Couturier de Ste James" to his parents in "Belesme" (Belleme nr. Alencon, France) charged "9" with a fine "Bau. Gal./GRANDE-ARMEE" mark nicely placed on the front. The contents (worthy of full transcription and translation) include; "We cannot encounter any Post Office. As soon as I arrived in Moscow, I had nothing more urgent than to find one to go and see what is there... Your four letters, one addressed to Palmeira(?) in Spain, the other to Turin, posted by Mr. Ayot the police officer, the other to Mainz, and the 4th to Grodno in Poland, they all arrived together and in the same package. I find it a very astonishing thing, that letters which bear dates so far apart from each other have been brought together but which I am happy to have received together... We are now billeted in Moscow." Very rare mail from the French Army in Moscow itself. [Ex Lugdunum auction, March 2015; realised 2,916 euros inc. BP.]Cross Reference: RUSSIA, FRANCE

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