NAPOLEON I. L.S. "Bonaparte" (secretary), Saint-Cloud, 25 vendémiaire XII (18 October 1803), to the citizen acting as President of the Tribunal d'Appel; countersigned by Jean-Antoine Chaptal, Minister of the Interior, and Hugues Maret, Secretary of State; 1 page large in-fol. partly printed, headed Bonaparte, First Consul of the French Republic, seal under paper (slight russet). Appointment of citizen Joseph M. Barral, President of the Court of Appeal, as "President of the electoral college of the department of Isère. We ordered at the same time that he would take, before entering in functions, the oath to fulfill them with fidelity"...