Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne Letter,
Collection
Identifier: MSS-140-SC
Scope and Content
The Bourrienne collection consists of one letter, written in French with an English translation, from Bourrienne in Hamburg to "his serene highness, Monsigneur the Prince of Benevent Talleyrand, Minister of Foreign Relations at Paris." It is dated July 16, 1806 and notes the forwarding of a letter to Talleyrand from Sir Edward Thornton, English Minister to Lower Saxony.
Dates
- 1806 July 16
Language of Materials
French English
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research.
Copy Restrictions
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Biographical Information
Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, French government official and diplomat for Napoleon, was born in 1769, at Sens, France. He was reported to have met Napoleon as a child at military school, and Bourrienne used this to gain favor with Napoleon later in life. Bourrienne served as a diplomat in Germany for the Revolutionary Government during the 1790s. He was Napoleons private secretary to Egypt in 1797 and his minister to Hamburg between 1804 and 1813. His tenure in Germany ended in disgrace when he was recalled to Paris for illegal activities including embezzlement and black marketeering. Bourrienne supported the monarchy after Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo. Minister Talleyrand helped secure Bourrienne an appointment as Minister of Posts under Louis XVIII in 1815. Bourrienne held this position for a short time before fleeing to Belgium to escape creditors who had pursued him since his time in Hamburg. Bourrienne wrote Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1831 and died in an insane asylum in Caen, France, in 1834.
Extent
1 Folder
Abstract
The Bourrienne letter is written from Bourrienne to Talleyrand, French Minister of Foreign Relations, concerning a letter from an English government official.
Relevant Secondary Sources
- Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de. Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte. Translated from French by John S. Memes. New York: Collier, 1901.
- Title
- Finding Aid of the Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne Letter, 1806 July 16
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by Tad McIlwraith
- Date
- ©2002
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is in English
Revision Statements
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Repository Details
Part of the UNM Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections Repository
Contact:
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451
cswrref@unm.edu
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451
cswrref@unm.edu