CHARRAS (Jean baptiste auguste François Marie Lalaurencie, M - Lot 516

CHARRAS (Jean baptiste auguste François Marie Lalaurencie, Marquis de) Vieuvicq (Eure-et-Loir) 1780 - château de Mont-chaude (Charente) 1857 - Military historian, Minister of War (acting) from May 11 to 17, 1848 - 3 Letters: L.A.S. from LA HAYE, 1857. 3pp in-8°: "Mon cher Lemaitre" he hastens to reply to her letter "... I am indeed writing a volume on the Campaign of 1815; and my work, delayed by the absence I have just had, will be finished before the end of January. Hetzel has bought it from me, and will publish it. The publication will take place in Brussels for sure, and in Paris at the same time if the Bonaparte police don't prevent me, which I believe they will. I accept with pleasure... Captain Brialement's work on Wellington; and I would like to be in a position to send you, in exchange, my book; but as I tell you, it is not even entirely written..." + L.A.S. CHARLOTTE, Paris. + L.A.S. CHARRAS, de Mézières 1er Octobre 1838, 2pp in-8°, as Lieutenant-Colonel of artillery (on leave), to M. De La MENNAIS + L.A.S. "CHARRAS" de MASCARA le 6 Sept 1843, à son Docteur, pour une liste de ravitages de complaisances - 2pp in-8°.