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Map of the siege of Danzig by the 10th Corps of the GRANDE A…
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Map of the siege of Danzig by the 10th Corps of the GRANDE A…
See original version (French)
Estimate
€500 - €800
Voluntary lot
Description
Map of the siege of Danzig by the 10th Corps of the GRANDE ARMÉE, showing the French fortifications as they stood on 23 April 1807.
Printed military map from the archives of General Lamarque, scale expressed in toises, 68 x 50.5 cm (as displayed), framed, with stains, water stains, creases, foxing, BE.
Provenance: Sale of General Lamarque’s memorabilia in Bordeaux on 10 April 1992, conducted by Maître Duval, auctioneer.
Jean Maximilien Lamarque (1770–1832), a General of the Empire who fought in the wars of the Revolution and the Empire. He distinguished himself particularly in the Wars of the Vendée and Spain. He enlisted in 1792 as a private, was appointed lieutenant on 3 April 1793, then captain on 13 May 1793 in the famous ‘Infernal Column’ of the Tour d’Auvergne within the Army of the Western Pyrenees. Promoted to battalion commander on 21 Thermidor Year II (8 August 1794), he served in the Army of the Rhine; he went on to distinguish himself brilliantly at the battles of Engen, Messkirch, Höchstädt and Hohenlinden on 3 December 1800, a feat of arms which earned him the epaulettes of a brigadier-general, presented to him by Bonaparte on 6 March 1801. At Austerlitz he commanded a brigade of the 7th Army Corps, then followed Joseph Bonaparte to Italy, who appointed him on 6 December 1807 as chief of his general staff with the rank of Major-General. He captured the island of Capri from the British on 18 December 1808 in a brilliant raid. He
left Italy in 1809 and rejoined the Grande Armée. He took part in the Battle of Wagram, where four of his horses were killed beneath him. He was appointed Baron of the Empire on 4 June 1810. Returning to Spain alongside King Joseph, he won the Battle of Altafulla on 8 February 1812. Having rationally sided with the Bourbons during the First Restoration, he followed the Emperor during the Hundred Days. He was proscribed following the fall of the Empire and went into exile, from which he returned in 1818. Retired in 1830, he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour on 21 July 1830. A writer and poet, he was elected Member of Parliament for the Landes in 1828. He died of cholera in Paris on 1 June 1832. His funeral provided the pretext for the riots of 1832, an event which Victor Hugo would make the subject of a chapter in *Les Misérables*. His name is engraved on the Arc de Triomphe.
EXPERT: Mr Hervé MATOUS
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ID: 88412336
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