Félix Baciocchi Autograph Letter Signed – Music Festival in Dieppe, 1853

  
Félix Baciocchi – Signed Autograph Letter – Musical Celebration in Dieppe – 1853.

Signed autograph letter by Félix Baciocchi, First Chamberlain to Emperor Napoleon III from 1853 and later Superintendent of Court Entertainments. The letter is dated September 3, 185? Written in black ink on a sheet of ivory laid paper with an engraved letterhead reading “Maison de l’Empereur” (Emperor’s Household) and “Premier Chambellan” (First Chamberlain), and the printed dateline “Palais des Tuileries, le” completed by hand.

In this letter addressed to Monsieur Leblond, Director of the Crown Furnishings, Baciocchi informs him that a man named Heugel has been tasked with organizing a musical celebration in Dieppe in honor of the Empress, and asks him to make the necessary items available to Heugel for the occasion.

Dimensions: 13.3 × 20.7 cm.
Condition: Good overall condition, with slightly browned paper and a few stains. See photos for further details.
Number of pages: 1 page.
Carefully shipped in rigid, waterproof cardboard packaging.

A nephew of the elder Félix Baciocchi (husband of Élisa Bonaparte), he was entrusted by Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte with diplomatic missions to Greece, Egypt, and Turkey in 1852, before becoming First Chamberlain to Napoleon III in 1853.

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