LEFEBVRE (François-Joseph). - Lot 142

LEFEBVRE (François-Joseph). Born in Rouffach (Haut-Rhin). 1755-1820. Important general under the 1st Republic, rallied to Napoleon Bonaparte. Marshal of the Empire in 1804, made Duke of Danzig in 1807. Married Catherine Hübscher, a laundress, known to posterity as Madame Sans-Gêne. L.A.S. "le Mal duc de Danzig" to Lieutenant-General Ecrouff. S.l.n.d. [circa 1820?]. 1 page in-4. Address. ...If you were a little kinder you would come and dine with us. You must be convinced that our feelings of attachment for you are sincere and will never diminish. Yesterday I spoke about you to His Royal Highness the Duc d'Angoulême*, and asked him for a château or provincial government. He replied with his usual kindness that he would renew the request to his majesty. [...]. Louis-Antoine dArtois, Duc dAngoulême (1775-1824), son of Charles X, last dauphin of France. He was an ephemeral king: during the events of the July Revolution of 1830, he was declared King of France for some twenty minutes, under the name of "Louis XIX", between the abdication of his father King Charles X and his own abdication in favor of his nephew (Henri dArtois). He went into exile with the courtesy title of "comte de Marnes" and became the eldest of the Capetians and "head of the House of France" on his father's death.