LETTER FROM GUNNER SAILOR JACQUES GOUAIT, of the 5th Company of the 2nd Expeditionary Battalion in Brest, TO HIS BROTHER CITIZEN JEAN GOY in Paris, 18 floréal year X (May 8, 1802). 18880-8

LETTER FROM GUNNER JACQUES GOUAIT, of the 5th Company of the 2nd Expeditionary Battalion in Brest, TO HIS BROTHER CITIZEN JEAN GOY in Paris, 18 floréal year X (8 May 1802). 18880-8

Letter with recipient's address "To citizen Le Roy wine merchant, St. Honoré street n° 85, facing St. Roc, Tuileries Section, facing Michodière street, To be delivered to citizen Jean Goy in Paris."
Postal mark "BREST."

Beautiful woodcut vignette printed in sanguine depicting the national ship "Le Républicain."
"LIBERTY EQUALITY FRATERNITY."
"From Brest on the 18th floréal year 10 of the French Republic, one and indivisible."

Gunner Jacques Gouait writes to his brother that he is "about to leave for America, we are boarding on the 25th of this month but we do not know which island we are destined for, but we strongly believe it is for the Isle de France or for Martinique or even for Cape Français, [...], ...

2 and a half pages in-4.

France.
Consulate.
Fairly good condition despite two tears with losses that do not affect the text, folding marks, remnants of a red wax seal.

NOTE: Letter reproduced on page 123, figure 58, in the book WAR LETTERS 1792-1815, Pierre Charrié, editions of the gunner, Nantes 2004.