NAPOLEON I (1769-1821), Emperor of the French. Secretarial note signed (‘N’), Paris, 29 May 1813, approving a memorandum signed by Henri Jacques Guillaume Clarke, Duc de Feltre, as Minister of War, 25 March 1813, communicating a request from General Vignolles for replacement officers for the 137th and 156th regiments of infantry, who have so far received only junior officers from the military school at St Cyr; Napoleon having taken a number of new officers into his Guard is requested to supply the replacement officers from the Guard regiments which are returning from Spain and who will be dispatched to Augsbourg under the command of General Bertand; Napoleon’s response (entered in the margin in a secretarial hand, but signed with the Emperor’s characteristic scrawled initial) is ‘J’ai pourvu à cela. J’ai nommé beaucoup d’officers pour ces Régiments, en prenant dans le Corps même d’observation d’Italie’ (I have taken care of this. I have named a great number of officers for these regiments, taken even from the Corps of Observation of Italy’). On paper with printed heading of the Ministry of War, 1 1/2 pages, folio. [with:] Four documents signed by Napoleonic marshals: Nicolas SOULT, Duc de Dalmatie (26 August 1814, recommending candidates as first president and councillor of the Cour Royale in Rennes), Joachim MURAT, King of Naples (as Governor of Paris, 16 September 1804, requesting instructions from Marshal Berthier on the treatment of an English prisoner of war, Mr ‘Hervetson’ [Herbertson?] living in Orleans, who wishes to change his residence to Saumur), Michel NEY, Duc d’Elchingen and Prince de la Moskova (as commander in chief of the camp at Montreuil-sur-Mer, 4 June 1805, on a troop reassignment) and André MASSENA, Duc de Rivoli, Prince D’Esseling (Milan, 1800, a letter of recommendation).