LETTER FROM SOLDIER THIBAULT GROGENT, skirmisher, Gravelines June 3, 1813, TO HIS PARENTS IN RICHELIEU (Indre-et-Loire). 18880-5
LETTER FROM SOLDIER THIBAULT GROGENT, voltigeur, Gravelines June 3, 1813, TO HIS PARENTS IN RICHELIEU (Indre-et-Loire). 18880-5
Letter signed by Thibault, with header "FRENCH EMPIRE," adorned with three vignettes including a watercolor depicting a soldier standing guard.
Address of his parents residing in "Richelieux, département of Indre-et-Loire, arrondissement of Chinon," stamp "GRAVELINES."
Soldier Thibault Grogent writes that he has been sick, like almost all his comrades, because the region is very unhealthy. He has a good sergent major who likes him a lot and who has given him advice for his brother's conscription, but even when he was sick, "he made me do exercises every day and the shift and stand guard often at night on this ugly port by the sea [...]".
3 pages in-4.
France.
First Empire.
Good condition, folds, foxing, torn edges with losses.
NOTE: Letter reproduced on page 229, figure 109, in the book WAR LETTERS 1792-1815, Pierre Charrié, éditions du canonnier, Nantes 2004.
Letter signed by Thibault, with header "FRENCH EMPIRE," adorned with three vignettes including a watercolor depicting a soldier standing guard.
Address of his parents residing in "Richelieux, département of Indre-et-Loire, arrondissement of Chinon," stamp "GRAVELINES."
Soldier Thibault Grogent writes that he has been sick, like almost all his comrades, because the region is very unhealthy. He has a good sergent major who likes him a lot and who has given him advice for his brother's conscription, but even when he was sick, "he made me do exercises every day and the shift and stand guard often at night on this ugly port by the sea [...]".
3 pages in-4.
France.
First Empire.
Good condition, folds, foxing, torn edges with losses.
NOTE: Letter reproduced on page 229, figure 109, in the book WAR LETTERS 1792-1815, Pierre Charrié, éditions du canonnier, Nantes 2004.
Price :
800,00 €
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| Shipping Europe | 12,00 € | 50,00 € |
| Shipping world | 34,00 € | 70,00 € |
Insurance (1%) :
8,00 €
Reference :
18880-5
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