(General DUMAS) – Documentary file on Alexandre DUMAS’s father (2...

(General DUMAS) – Documentary file on Alexandre DUMAS’s father (2 binders)
It contains, in particular:
- Thomas-Alexandre DUMAS. Autograph order signed as Commander-in-Chief of the Army of the Alps. Grenoble, 24 Ventôse, Year 2 [March 14, 1794]. “C. Espagne, adjutant general, is ordered to report to me in Grenoble upon receipt of this order.” Below, a supplementary order signed by Henry Garret, Brigadier General commanding in Maurienne.” Framed.
- Portrait engraved by Bourgeois. Paris, Potrelle. Foxing. Framed. 330 x 220 mm.
- Portrait engraved by F. Bonneville. In Paris, Rue Saint-Jacques. 205 x 136. Framed.
– Engraved portrait of General Dumas. Published by M. Jones, June 1807 (19th-century reprint). 145 x 95 mm. Foxing and stains. Old metal frame.
– Decree of the National Convention dated the 2nd day of Nivôse, Year II of the French Republic…. Appointing Citizen Dumas as Commander-in-Chief of the Army of the Alps. Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, Year II.
- The same. Foix, at Citizen Fontes’s.
- Excerpt from General Dumas’s death certificate. February 27, 1806. 1 folio page.
- Engraving by Vauthier after a drawing by Bovinet depicting the generals of the Revolution. 420 x 290 mm. Framed.
- Numerous articles and newspaper clippings.
- Portraits.