A piece of Anglo French history will go under the hammer next week when a letter with a Shrewsbury connection written by Napoleon Bonaparte’s brother, Lucien, is sold at auction.
Halls Fine Art’s stamps specialist Andy Neal describes the letter from Lucien Bonaparte , first Prince of Canino and Musignano, as “of postal, historical and literary importance.”
With Lucien’s relationship with Napoleon having cooled by 1810, he set sail with his family from Italy to start a new life in the USA. However, as their ship sheltered in Sardinia from storms, he was captured and brought to Britain where he became a paroled prisoner. The letter being sold next week, which has part of Lucien’s LB seal remaining, was written at Thorngrove and posted in Shrewsbury on November 25, 1813 to Cambridge.
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