THE HUNDRED DAYS (March 1 to July 7, 1815): Approximately 52 - Lot 119

THE HUNDRED DAYS (March 1 to July 7, 1815): Approximately 52 documents from the period and 9 subsequent documents (2 related to the Ney trial), including 5 damaged posters, newspapers, letters, a certificate, a military discharge, a circular, and a bulletin of laws. Included are instructions for taking the oath of allegiance to the Empire and a letter from a man to his son, lamenting that he could not attend the Field of May (the assembly where Napoleon proclaimed the Additional Act to the Constitutions of the Empire). A receipt for 300 francs for a horse rented to a captain in the 5th Company, or the Emperor’s Sacred Battalion; the horse was lost, Lyon, April 15, 1815.