[LES BIJOUX DE L'IMPERATRICE EUGENIE] Antonio de Crespo - Lot 55

[LES BIJOUX DE L'IMPERATRICE EUGENIE] Antonio de Crespo Very curious autograph letter signed. June 1872; 3 pages in-4°. The said Captain Antonio de Crespo writes that at the time of the abdication of Napoleon III, the Empress Eugenie would have given him him a set of jewels and bills representing 8 million Francs, to be given in Spain, to the mother of Spain, to the mother of the Empress. "Having deserved the confidence of this lady and after the capitulation of Sedan when the republic was programmed in France, I received orders to pass in Spain with a to Spain with a case that it contained in jewels and bank bills of France for value of eight million francs to give them to Mrs. his mother the Countess of Montijo". A notary's act of Madrid attesting the seizure of the luggage is joined. Joined also another act of a notary of Delle, without report with the business.