A letter signed by Elisa Bonaparte to her brother Napoleon's Minister of War, Henri-Jacques-Guillaume Clarke, Duc de Feltre
After his conquest of Italy, Napoleon appointed his sister Elisa as ruler of a client state in the north-western part of the peninsula. In this official letter, stamped 'Secret' and written soon after the departure of Napoleon on his ill-fated Russian campaign, Elisa informs the French Minister of War of..... More