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NAPOLEON I, Emperor of the French ]. A collection of letters and documents relating to French Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras and public figures of the period, including: the COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC SAFETY. Document signed by Collot d'Herbois, Carnot, Prieur and others, 8 August 1794, ordering the release of citoyen Réal; Joseph FOUCHE. Letter signed as Minister of Police to the Minister of the Navy [Denis Decrès], Paris, 4 January 1805, on the pilfering of stores of gunpowder in the department of the Var, and especially at Toulon, 2 pages, folio ; and documents with the signature of ADMINISTRATORS including Charles-François-LEBRUN ( as third member of the consulate , 1800), Jean Jacques Régis de CAMBACERES ( author of the Code Napoléon , as minister of justice, 1799), Jean-Baptiste Nompère de CHAMPAGNY ( as minister of foreign affairs , requesting the extradition from Cassel of an armed robber now posing as a French soldier, 1808, with another, 1806), Jean-Pierre Bachasson, comte de Montalivet ( as minister of the interior , summoning the mayor of Grenoble to Napoleon's wedding with Marie-Louise, 16 May 1810), Armand Augustin Louis de CAULAINCOURT (1814); military figures, including Gilbert du Motier, marquis de LA FAYETTE (document signed as general commander in chief of the Garde Nationale de Paris, 20 August 1830), Henri Gratien, comte BERTRAND (1808 and 1843), Louis-Lazare HOCHE ( as general in chief of the army of the West , 1795), Larrey ( surgeon-in-chief , 1796); Jean-Baptiste Kléber (n.d.); and FIGURES IN NAPOLEON'S PERSONAL LIFE, including: Laure JUNOT (enquiring about her brother, who has disappeared in England, 1814), Jean-Nicolas CORVISART ( Napoleon's doctor , 1816), Louis MARCHAND (Napoleon's valet, n.d.), Charles Tristan, marquis de MONTHOLON ( Napoleon's companion on St Helena , 1839), Francesco Antommarchi ( Napoleon's doctor on St Helena , applying for recompense for his ministrations to the injured in the revolution of 1830); with a loyal address to Napoleon from the senate of the Ionian Islands, and other documents, 28 documents in total . (28)