Madame la Duchesse
May 13, 2022
3 minutes
ver 200 years ago, as now, postal services were disrupted by conflict between states and countries. Disruption of post during those years of war meant that the length of time for letters and parcels to reach their final destination was often considerably more than peace time. For people, travel became more difficult and could be curtailed, so when Europe had returned to peace after the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte had been defeated and exiled to St. Helena, those
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