(Napoleonica) Joseph-Marie Tennet de Laubadère (Bassoues, 1745 - Poulylebon, 1809) - 32 autograph

(Napoleonica) Joseph-Marie Tennet de Laubadère (Bassoues, 1745 - Poulylebon, 1809)32 autograph documents signed or documents signed (letters, reports, memoirs and speeches) by the divisional general of the French Revolution, about half written from the city of Landau, besieged by the Prussian army from March to August 1793. An extraordinary collection that gathers military documents concerning the ephemeral Republic of Mainz, the capitulation of this city and the occupation of Landau by the French troops led by Laubadère. The documents provide the names of numerous generals and officers active in the region and with information on army maneuvers, surveillance of the Rhine, requisitions and mobilizations, supplies, orders and battles, etc. The first letters testify the disorganization of the French army: scattered soldiers, national gendarmerie unable to reach its brigades, orders that do not reach the interested parties, exhausted officers, lack of supplies, food, mediocre camps – all foreshadow the drama that took place in Mainz when several generals were sentenced to death following the capitulation of the city. On May 23, Laubadère rejoices at the departure of Custine whom he accuses of ""...graves (...) très graves fautes..."" and of having temporarily routed the army ""...par suite des mauvaises dispositions qu' il a manifestées dans son plan d'attaque: il est impossible, mon cher Beauharnais, d'imaginer à quel point il a porté les preuves de son incapacité (...) comment il a pu sacrifier une partie de sa cavalerie, à moins que je ne lui suppose l' infâme projet de trahir les intérêts de la République..."". Total of over 60 pp. In-8° and in-4°. Included, 4 letters by secretaries (one signed by Alexandre de Beauharnais).