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Napoleon Letters
To Be Sold
EGYPTIAN CAMPAIGN
DOCUMENTS
Famous French
Collection
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1936,
HE WAITED 21 YEARS GIVE HER
FOR A DIVORCE Judge Critic of Law Says: "I Am Sorry for This Man”
Swansen, Dec. 18. AM sorry for this man, who has had to wait 21 years for a divorce to which he was entitled, in my opinion, nearly 21 years ago."
To the list of important forth." coming sales already announced must be added that of the dis persal of the third portion of M. Emile Brouwet's collection of autograph letters and documents relating to Napoleon and hig Albert Ernest Phillpott, of Albany Road, Cardiff, was grant- times. This will take place ated a decree nisi against his wife, Emma Jane, on the grounds of Messrs. Sotheby's this month. her misconduct with a man named Reader at Cardiff..
The sale is particularly interesting | . It was stated that Phillpott and his wife had not lived to-
Mr. Justice Swift medo this comment at Glamorgan As
the present divorce sizes here to-day in a critical review of laws.
as the Arst two sections of this col-gether for 21 years. lection were sold in Paris in 1934
and 1935. M. Brouwet's reason for transferring this portion to Sotheby's becium he now realiser. like so many Continental collectors, that London is the best centre in the world for the disposal of art and
terary treasures.
The main interest in the present catalogue, which is printed entirely lies in the extensive series French,
in
of letters and documents dealing with
the campaign. in Egypt. It opens with the preparations for departure
We pro
them on their murches
011
great
They were married at Cardiff in 1900 and the wife left her husband in 1915 and went to Indis.
Rome Wireless for Rexists. BELGIAN LEADER'S
CLAIM
In granting the decree Mr. Justice Swin mid: "Can you justify the present state of our law which allows prople to be tied together when every spiritual and every physienl relationship has been destroyed for 21 years?
LEFT A NOTE
"Ought it not to have been enough; for him, the husband, to have gone to somebody, to me if you like, "and, Brussels, Dec. 18. sny, My wife has left me. She At a political meeting at Mons the went out of the house, left a note leader of the Rex Party, M. Leon behind saying she was never coming Degrelle, announced that very shortly back and she has never been back. the voice of lex will be heard on She has gone and I do not know the wirelens.
where she has gone and she has been gone for 12 months."
"Ought I not then to say, 'You may have your divorce"?"
This is likely to bring a diploma- tic action from the Belgian Govern- ment, as it is almost certain that the Rome station will be used by Rexisis mainly for attacking the Belgian Government.
the
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In April, 1708 and. ends with the surrender of the scanty remnant of the expedition to the English troops under Hutchinson in June, 1801.
CARE FOR HIS MEN Most
fascinating are the letters of the Emperor himself, showing many
He said that once s week the different
Phasen self
of his versatile
Rome wireless station will put their genius.
as the him
the
Rexists. military commander, ruthless at the disposal of holding discipline, but careful also to maintain the spirit of his troops, providing drums and trumpets for theatre hes and for them while in barracks at Cairo. lle appears also as the colonial ad- ministrator, signing documents drawn up in Arable; and again in what is
The Rexist Party of M. Degrello for him the very rare part of semi-Fascist. It
It has been nc-. friend, writing from Cairo to Desalxcused of connection with Germany to give him the remarkable medical following M. Degrelle's visit to Ber-
This is probably the strangest re- advice to wear a flannel waistcoat as lin last month. It is alleged that M. uest ever made by a radio firm. It a protection against eye disease. Degrelle promised to restore Eupen comes from E. K. Cole, of Southend-
Of particular interest
rest to English
and
it his on-Sea, who explained to me that Malmedy to Germany
they need the insects for research. students are the documents relating
party came τα power. to Malta, to naval warfare, and the
The recent threat of M. Degrelle Purposean
ants will be well treated, but Battle of the Nile, and to the un- to march on Brussels with 250,000 of successful slege of Acre. It is amus- his followers resulted in a flasco, the we shall expect them to try to eat meeting being banned and M. waxed cardboard, Insulating tape Degrelle being arrested and kept in and other electrical products," said
ing to
to find Napoleon characterising Sydney Smith as "un jeune ambi- tieux qui veut faire so fortune detention. cherche a
mettre souvent SC evidence, unconscious of the fact that the words might be applied to himself.
ca
There are the letters und diary of Hoche, the long series on the i campalens In Spain and Russia and those dealing with Waterloo and the Hundred Days. There are 205 letters
of Marie Louise, including 180 to her life-long friend Victoire Du Poutet. extending from 1790 to 1840.
Finally note must be made of the four Sevres plates from the service known as "Des Quartiers Generaux" used by Napoleon at St. Helena,
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