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Adressé à 'Monsieur Général Count Lauriston Paris'.
Plusieurs tampons postaux ‘ANGLETERRE’, ‘PAID 30 MR 1827’, ‘PAID MAR 28 1827’, ‘Avril 2 1827’, écrit ‘Paid 2/4’.
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Jacques Jean Alexandre Bernard Law, marquis de Lauriston est un militaire, diplomate et homme politique français, né le 1er février 1768 à Pondichéry dans les Indes françaises, et mort le 11 juin 1828 à Paris. Il devient successivement général de division en 1805, comte de l'Empire en 1808, ambassadeur de France en Russie en 1811, marquis de Lauriston en 1817, maréchal de France en 1823 et ministre d'État en 1824. Il est par ailleurs élu en 1822 à l'Institut de France (Académie des beaux-arts).
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Ibid.—"At Moy, near Forres, on the 17th ult., at an advanced age, Mrs Grant of Moy, wife of the late Colonel Hugh Grant of Moy. This venerable lady was maternal aunt of the Marquis de Lauriston, Marechal of France of Francis John William Law of Lauriston, Esq., in the County of Edinburgh, and grand-aunt of Culling Charles Smith, Esq., Receiver-General of the Customs of England brother-in-law of Field-Marshal the Duke of Wellington. The mortal remains of Mrs Grant were conveyed from Forres by a great number of the respectable gentlemen of this neighbourhood to the family burying-ground in the retired valley of Urquhart, on the banks of Loch-Ness and her interment may be noticed as being among the lingering instances of a genuine Highland funeral, where the wild music of the pipe, the feast, and the shell formed indispensable accompaniments of the obsequies." [Mary Cawalo Grant survived her husband, Colonel Hugh Grant of Moy (1733-1822), but they had no issue - see Vol 17 under date of April 25, 1822.]
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