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83 - General Lecourbe’s Grand Cross of the Order of the Legion of…
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Estimate €15,000 - €18,000
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General Lecourbe’s Grand Cross of the Order of the Legion of Honour: A large goldsmith’s piece from the FirstRestoration, presented by Louis XVIII on 23 August 1814. General Lecourbe was appointed Grand Eagle on 17 June 1815, at the Imperial headquarters in Fleurus, on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo, a few months before his don 22 October 1815, in Belfort. An enamelled gold cross with rounded points and a large crown in high relief featuring fleurs-de-lis; it is worth noting that the fleur-de-lis at the top of the crown has beenslightly altered to resemble a cross; centres in two-piece enamelled vermeil in the imperial style, subsequently replaced; it is presented with its original large cord; diameter 73 mm, gross weight approximately 75 g (the cord has not been unstitched for weighing). (A few small chips to the enamel; a chip in the blue enamel of the centre on the reverse; the original cord is worn and has tears). Date: Early Restoration period. Very good condition. General LECOURBE, appointed Grand Eagle on 17 June 1815, rallied … Louis XVIII on 23 July 1815, died of illness on 22 October 1815; he probably did not have time to have his cross altered himself, and the centres were likely changed later by a family member. PROVENANCE: from the descendants of the LECOURBE family, then the Charles BOUCHÉ collection. Claude Jacques LECOURBE, Count, General, born on 22 February 1759 … Rouffey (Jura) according to the records of the Legion of Honour; the ‘Six’ source, however, gives his place of birth as Besançon in 1758. Brigade commander on 20 May 1794; provisionally appointed brigadier-general of the Army of the Ardennes on 12 June 1794; confirmed asbrigade general by the Committee of Public Safety on 13 June 1795; appointed by the Executive Directory as general of division on 5 February 1799; appointed lieutenant-gGeneral-in-Chief by MOREAU on 29 April 1800; retired on 8 September 1804, as a friend of MOREAU; exiled to the Jura in 1805. Summoned to Paris by the Count of Artois on 15 April 1814; reinstated on 24 April; awarded the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour on 23 August 1814; gCommander-in-Chief of the Army of Belfort; made a count on 31 December 1814; Inspector-General of Infantry in the 6th and 18th military divisions on 3 January 1815. Initially refused to join the Hundred Days, then offered his services to Napoleon I to defend ‘France under threat’; appointed commander of the 18th Division on 27 March; Count of the Empire on 3 April 1815; Commander-in-Chief of the Jura Observation Corps (later the 8th Corps) on 16 April; arrived in Belfort on 30 April; Peer of France on 2 June 1815; attempted to halt the enemy at the battles of Foussemagne on 30 June, Bourogne and Chévremont on 2 July, and Bavilliers on 8 July, and signed an armistice at Bavilliers with theAustrian General Colloredo on 11 July 1815; rallied to Louis XVIII on 23 July; granted a pension of 6,000 francs on 4 September 1815. He had been appointed Grand Eagle at the Imperial headquarters in Fleurus on 17 June 1815. Text of the appointment: ‘Napoleon, Emperor of the French, we have decreed and hereby decree the following: Article 1: Lieutenant-General Count LECOURBE, Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour, is appointed Grand Eagle. Article 2: Our Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honour is charged with the execution of this decree. Signed Napoleon – by the Emperor – the Minister and Secretary of State, the Duke of Bassano?.
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