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de Forges, Général Leclerc, Notice Historique & Biographique, 1869
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Le Général Leclerc (Victoire-Emmanuel, Beau-frère l’Empereur Napoléon 1er; Notice Historique & Biographique,d’après les documents officiels: by
M.A.-P. de Forges, Sous-Directeur au Ministère de la Guerre, 39p, Paris, Imp. Administrative de Paul Dupont, 1869. (Lacks TOC and index. Leclerc,
Napoleon’s brother-in-law, was chosen to command the invasion and re-subjugation of Toussaint-Louvereture’s Saint-Domingue. He died there, prey to the same
tropical fevers that wiped out most of his army of 50,000. It is not clear whether the main text of this official War Ministry tribute to Leclerc’s
career, both earlier during Napoleon’s campaigns in Europe and terminally in Saint-Domingue, was first published in 1869. It may be a reprint of a document
originally issued shortly after Leclerc’s death in 1802. If so, it was reissued on the occasion of the erection of an idealized statute commemorating
Leclerc in his family seat, the City of Pontoise, in 1868. The statue of Leclerc was but one of the many monuments erected during the reign of French
Emperor Napoleon III as a way of glorifying his imperial predecessor and his circle, and thus by extension legitimizing his own rule. A line drawing
of the statute appears after the title page.)
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Title:
Le général Leclerc (Victoire-Emmanuel), beau-frère de l'empereur Napoléon 1er : notice historique et biographique d'après les documents officiels / par M.A.-P. De Forges, Sous-Directeur au Ministère de la Guerre.
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OCLC Number:
870869118
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Available Volumes
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| Name | Fiche Count | Online | Paper Backup |
| Vol. 1 | | Yes | No |
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