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NAPOLEON II (BONAPARTE, FRANOIS-CHARLES-JOSEPH). Autograph manuscript, n.p., n.d., 2 pages, certification of authenticity by J.B. Foresti, bound in brown morocco gilt, t.e.g. by SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE, with 13 engraved portraits, with a type-written English translation. The draft of a letter of congratulations in a schoolboy's ruled composition book, corrected by Foresti, the Prince's Italian tutor.
"...Monsieur N. told me yesterday of your promotion, and I hasten to congratulate you on your having obtained a situation which suits your wishes. You have rapidly arrived at the goal to which others aspire all their life: you have sought since your earliest years to deserve this glorious position, in a manner that very few people indeed know how to practice; there are in fact but few people capable of fulfilling the duties of a high place and yet they all aspire to it..."
"...Monsieur N. told me yesterday of your promotion, and I hasten to congratulate you on your having obtained a situation which suits your wishes. You have rapidly arrived at the goal to which others aspire all their life: you have sought since your earliest years to deserve this glorious position, in a manner that very few people indeed know how to practice; there are in fact but few people capable of fulfilling the duties of a high place and yet they all aspire to it..."