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| Lot #159 FRANCE 1808 NAPOLEON Bonaparte, single page folio dated 16 December, 1808 addressed "Au Prince Eugene Napoleon", datelined Madrid. Napoleon addressed the letter "Mon Fils" and signs "Votre Affectionnee Pere NAP", fine letter from the Emperor to his stepson Eugene (de Beauharnais, was adopted by Napoleon in 1806, though excluded from succession to the French Empire). A rare letter from Napoleon, during his short time in Madrid in December 1808 | $2,100.00 Bidding Closed | |
| Lot #160 FRANCE 1811 NAPOLEON Bonaparte (1769-1821), military general and the first emperor of France who is considered one of the world's greatest military leaders. Napoleon revolutionized military organization and training, sponsored the Napoleonic Code, reorganized education and established the long-lived Concordat with the papacy. A two-page letter, date-lined St.Cloude, 11 June, 1811 addressed to Duc de Feltre, Ministre de la Guerre (Henri-Jacques-Guillaume Clarke, Duke of Feltre, born to Irish parents from Lisdowney, Co. Kilkenny, in Landrecies, was a politician and Marshal of France. Clarke was one of the most influential and charismatic Franco-Irish generals in the French army during the Napoleonic period. He had close links to the Irish Brigade of France), letter discusses military matters, with additional commentary pinned at bottom, boldly signed "NAPOL", dated 11 June 1811 | $2,000.00 Bidding Closed | |
| Lot #161 FRANCE 1850 1fr light carmine, brown carmine, used, margins all around, fresh, the latter with tiny thin entirely in margin, otherwise v.f., signed Diena, Roumet, Maury, O Catalog #9,9b Catalog Value $1,450 | $300.00 Bidding Closed | |
| Lot #162 FRANCE 1850 1fr carmine, Sperati reproduction, handstamped on back, v.f. Catalog #9 | $140.00 Bidding Closed | |
| Lot #163 FRANCE 1857 (7 Jan) FL from Le Havre to New York, with 30c franking (3x10c "Empire" imperf., minor faults), tied by small "1495" numerals, routed "Via Cadiz", red "Bureau Maritime Le Havre" departure, red "P.P." postage only partially paid and charged "6" postage due (on Ship Letter delivered in port of arrival)  | $150.00 Bidding Closed | |
| Lot #164 FRANCE 1870 4c dark gray, used, faint crayon mark at bottom, margins all around, fresh and v.f., signed Brun and Roumet (Maury 41f, Euro 1,550) O Catalog #40var | $130.00 Bidding Closed | |
| Lot #165 FRANCE 1929 Le Havre Exposition, v.f., single franking on registered cover, filing folds away from the stamp, Catalog #246 Catalog Value $750 | $130.00 Bidding Closed | |
| Lot #166 FRANCE 1930 B.I.T. Congress, set of two blocks of 15, n.h., fine-v.f.,  **Catalog #256-57 Catalog Value $697 | $130.00 Bidding Closed | |
| Lot #167 FRANCE 1944 Liberation of Paris, souvenir sheet of four, n.h., usual wrinkles and natural tiny inclusions (printed during the war on very poor quality paper), actually v.f. and scarce (see note in Scott following No.523) (YT BF4, Euro 9,300) **Catalog Value $6,500 | $4,000.00 Bidding Closed | |
| Lot #168 FRANCE 1957-59 Europa, two different Signed Artist Die proofs, v.f. P | $90.00 Bidding Closed |
