Jacques Boudin, Count of TROMELIN (1771–1842), general. 3 au - Lot 543

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Jacques Boudin, Count of TROMELIN (1771–1842), general. 3 au - Lot 543
Jacques Boudin, Count of TROMELIN (1771–1842), general. 3 autograph manuscripts, one of which is signed, 1825–1827; 32 pages, folio. An interesting collection of texts on Greece and the Ottoman Empire, translated from English by General de Tromelin. [The nephew of the famous admiral, he served as aide-de-camp to Admiral Sidney Smith during the exile; he served in the East, notably in the Turkish army, and was imprisoned in 1804 as an accomplice of Cadoudal. He returned to service in 1809 in the Grande Armée, rising to the rank of colonel of the Croatian Regiment (1809) and then general (1813); he served in Saxony, at Leipzig, and at Waterloo. These working notes, containing numerous corrections, were to serve as the basis for a major publication the general was preparing on Greece and the Balkans: Observations on the Roads Leading from the Danube to Constantinople through the Balkans or Mount Hoemus, followed by Some Reflections on the Necessity of Intervention by the Powers of Southern Europe in the Affairs of Greece, by Lieutenant General Count de T., published in 1828. Journey to Mount Athos by Dr. Hunt, followed by an excerpt from a treatise by Dr. Sibthorp on the quadrupeds and fish of Greece (signed, 6 pp.); Excerpt from A Survey of Greece in 1825 by J. Emerson and Count Peicho (4 pp.); Excerpts and translation of *A Journey to Albania* by S.C. Hobhouse, in the years 1809 and 1810 (20 pp., and 2 pp. of a table of distances). Enclosed is a signed autograph memorandum, dated March 15, 1821 (8 pp., folio), containing reflections on the organization of the army during the Restoration and on issues of discipline and the soldiers’ loyalty toward their superiors. Plus papers from the estate of the Chevalier de Tromelin (1735–1815), admiral, explorer, and governor of Port-Louis: a detailed list of debts owed to the estate, correspondence from the notary regarding these debts (5 letters from 1816), and an inventory of Mr. de Tromelin’s library…
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