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JOURDAN JEAN BAPTISTE: (1762-1833) Marshal of France. An excellent A.L.S., Ml Jourdan, Soisy sous Etiolles, 20th May 1830, to General Vaudoncourt, in French. Jourdan sends his congratulations to his correspondent referring to his plan of publishing a military journal, although he doubts about the readers response, stating `..It is certain that a State cannot be free if it is not idependent, therefore the necessity of a permanent army. But will a State keep its freedom if the army can become a toll to detroy this same freedom?, further explaining the way he thinks this should work, saying `..the army has to be at the service of the government to repel any foreign aggression, but will only be allowed to intervene in the interior of the State subject to the law and public freedom…´ With blank address leaf, postmarked. Small overall creasing, otherwise VG £80-120Frederic François Guillaume de Vaudoncourt (1772-1845) French General, and military Historian and Writer.

A pair of Etiolles salts c.1770, the oval forms raised on shaped bases painted with flowers and picked out in puce detailing, incised MP monograms for Monier and Pellevé, a Frankenthal salt c.1756-59, painted with figures in a landscape, blue lion mark and Hannong monogram, and a Thuringian porcelain small double-walled basket, 9.7cm max. (4)