Letter of pardon signed by Emperor Napoleon I. Letter on vellum, on behalf of Jean Delauney, customs officer, sentenced to five years' imprisonment for homicide, currently detained in Coblentz. His sentence is commuted to two years' imprisonment from the date of his conviction. Done at Saint Cloud on the 3rd supplementary day of the year XIII (September 20, 1805). Signatures of Emperor Napoleon I, Cambacérès, the Grand Judge Duc de Massa and Secretary of State Maret. 56 x 41 cm B.E. (Slightly oiled). First Empire period. An "afflictive and infamous" punishment, gêne is a form of aggravated solitary confinement. It was applied to civil servants in particular. It was abolished in 1810.