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230 - Militaria. OTTO & PIROU, Paris (active from 1928 to 1950).
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Estimate €40 - €60
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Militaria. OTTO & PIROU, Paris (active from 1928 to 1950). Photographic portrait of General Louis COLSON (1875–1951) in full dress uniform, 1931. Approx. 32 x 23 cm. Colson was promoted to the rank of Commander of the Legion of Honour by decree of 5 July 1934, before being elevated to the rank of Grand Officer by decree of 23 December 1937 (awarded on 24 January 1938), which allows this portrait to be dated between July 1934 and December 1937. Also visible in the portrait are the Croix de Guerre (with two commendations), the Officer’s Cross of the Order of the Crown of Belgium, awarded in 1920; the Cross of Saints Maurice and Lazarus, awarded in 1915; the Officer’s Palms of the Order of Public Instruction; and the Order of the Sacred Treasure of Japan. Attached is a death notice for General Colson. General Colson, born in Toul (Lorraine), attended the École Polytechnique and Saint-Cyr as part of his engineering training, followed by the École Supérieure de Guerre. A Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour, he held very high-ranking posts within the Army. He was the last Secretary of State for War of the Third Republic, then Minister of War under the Vichy regime (for less than a month) until his retirement in 1940. Tried after the Liberation, he was acquitted on the grounds of his involvement in the Resistance.
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