Reiset to Broumer: a 12,000-franc credit...

NRA-L-000850

Reiset to Broumer: a 12,000-franc credit request — 20 June, year not stated

A credit request for 12,000 francs from Catoire Duquenoy & Cie, involving a guarantee and sixty-day drafts. The writer asks Broumer’s opinion of the firm and reports visiting the Duke of Danzig at Wiesbaden while awaiting news of the Grande Armée.

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NRA-L-000850

NRA-L-000850 image 1 showing the delivery address to Broumer in Paris, with the original folds and seal. — **Image 1**Address panel and seal.

NRA-L-000850 image 2 showing the French manuscript to Broumer, with the original paper loss at the right edge. — **Image 2**Letter text.

Archive Record

Identifier: NRA-L-000850
Date: Undated
Original date: 20 Juin
Type: Correspondence
Language: French / fr
Sender: Jacques Louis Étienne de Reiset
Recipient: Broumer
Places: Paris
Extent: 2 documentary sides: Letter text; Address panel and seal; 2 digital images.
Citation: Neruda Archives, NRA-L-000850.

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Transcript and English translation

working scholarly aid

Letter text

Original transcript

20 Juin

Mon ami.
Catoire Duquenoy & Cie [ajout : rue … du Rempart N° 6]
me demandent un Crédit de
12000 f en faveur des liquidateurs de la Masse de [Mayer?] avec
leur garantie et contre mes traites à 60 jours,
dites moi ce que vous pensez sur Catoire Duquenoy, je ne
[quelques mots incertains] et cependant je ne voudrais pas
les désobliger. tout à vous, [courte clause incertaine] lettres, [nom tronqué ; lacune du papier]
tout à vous
[paraphe]

Le Duc de Dantzick est à Wisbaden, je vais le voir tous les jours, il me témoigne
beaucoup d’amitié, il jouit [mots incertains] crédit. Nous attendons
Constamment des nouvelles de la grande armée [mots incertains] depuis le 6.

Letter text

English translation

20 June

My friend,
Catoire Duquenoy & Cie [insertion: rue … du Rempart, No. 6] ask me for a credit of 12,000 francs in favour of the liquidators of the estate of [Mayer?], with their guarantee and against my sixty-day drafts. Tell me what you think about Catoire Duquenoy. I do not [a few uncertain words], and yet I would not wish to disoblige them. Entirely yours; [short uncertain clause] letters, [truncated name; loss of paper]
Entirely yours.
[paraph]

The Duke of Danzig is at Wiesbaden. I go to see him every day; he shows me much friendship. He enjoys [uncertain words] influence. We are constantly awaiting news of the Grande Armée [uncertain words] since the 6th.

Notes

The day and month are written without a year. A physical loss of paper survives at the right edge.

Address panel and seal

Original transcript

À Monsieur
Broumer Directeur de la
Comptabilité de la Caisse de Service
à Paris

Address panel and seal

English translation

To Monsieur
Broumer, Director of
Accounting of the Caisse de service,
in Paris.

Discovery Terms

Reiset–Broumer Correspondence
Credit
Bills of exchange
Catoire Duquenoy&Cie
Wiesbaden
Duke of Danzig

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