1815-24 BOURBON RESTORATION

Louis XVIII was restored to power with Allied support, following the defeat of Napoléon. The return to peace opened the doors again to trade and shipping across Europe. This letter of 1818 from DANZIG to Bordeaux reports on shipping and commodities and arrived through the French entry post office ALLEMAGNE PAR STRASBOURG, then via HAUTESANE (presumably Haute-Saone) and on to the firm Gaden & Klipsch, German shippers from Magdeburg who had based themselves as wine shippers on the Chartrons quay in Bordeaux in 1803. Another example of Franco-German enterprise with Strasbourg as the fulcrum.