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Auction: 25066 - Historical Documents, Autographs and Ephemera
Lot: 137

French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
Napoleon - The Charvet Papers
1811-1819 Collection of the papers of M. Charvet, Valet de Chambre (Keeper of the Wardrobe) to Napoleon, intact, last sold on auction "By Mr Stanley at his Rooms, Old Bond Street, on Friday 2nd July 1819, as lots 29 and 30", with a copy of the sale catalogue descriptions. The collection comprises:
1.The original manuscript passport signed by Charles Philip, Prince of Schwarzenberg two weeks after the capture of Paris, permitting M. Charvet who has business at Fonteinbleau, to freely pass through advance posts, dated 10th April 1814
2. Original passport partly printed in French and German, signed "Le Prince de Metternich", Austrian statesman now in Paris, permitting M. Charvet to travel to the Isle of Elba, requesting civil and military authorities to offer every assistance, dated 20 April 1814
3. Nine letters signed by the Duc de Froiul as Grand Marshal of the Palace to M. Charvet, about the Emperor's wardrobe, repair of his firearms (1811-1812)
3. The original certified and signed sale agreement between M. Charvet and Dr Francois Auguste Duboys, incorporating a "Faithful List of articles having belonged to Napoleon Buonaparte and abandoned by the Grand Marshal of the Palace, Bertrand, sold by M. Charvet, Keeper of the Wardrobe of His Majesty the Emperor, to M. Doboys, Doctor of Medicine". With a certificate signed by Duboys stating the provenance of these "moveable articles" that belonged to Napoleon.
Many of the documents have English translations affixed to an adjoining page.
A remarkable archive to emerge intact 206 years after being sold in London by public auction (20)

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Estimate
£3,500 to £4,000

Starting price
£3200