PATENT LETTERS FROM SIEUR ETIENNE GAUTHIER,... - Lot 177 - Osenat

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PATENT LETTERS FROM SIEUR ETIENNE GAUTHIER,... - Lot 177 - Osenat
PATENT LETTERS FROM SIEUR ETIENNE GAUTHIER, Brigadier General, Officer of the Legion of Honor, as Baron of the Empire. On vellum with painted coat of arms in the upper left corner. Signed by the Emperor "Napol" and by the Archchancellor of the Empire "Cambacérès". Given in the Palace of Saint Cloud, November 11, 1813. With inscription and signature on the back of the Chancellor of the Senate "Laplace". With its red wax seal with the big imperial arms and its yellow and blue silk ribbon. In its iron case. 44.5 x 61 cm. Coat of arms of the Baron : Argent with a chevron of Gules accompanied in chief by two horse heads, Sable, and in point by a spur rowel, of the same, to the azure comble charged with three golden stars, in fess, franc-quartier of the Barons, drawn from the army, broaching to the ninth of the shield, for livery the colors of the shield. Attached: The list of "Property in Westphalia lot of 4010,15 frs of Baron Gauthier, General of Brigade". 10 pages. Attribution of the coat of arms and the title of Baron to Sieur Gauthier signed by Prévost General Secretary of the Council of the Seal of the titles, November 11, 1813. Biography: Etienne GAUTHIER, born on August 11, 1761 in Balesmes-sur-Marne (Haute-Marne), died on April 19, 1826 in Tours (Indre-et-Loire), is a French general of the Revolution and the Empire. He entered the service on March 22, 1782, as a soldier in the Regiment of Auvergne, he made the campaigns of 1782 and 1783, at sea and in Martinique under the orders of Admiral de Grasse, and he was discharged on March 22, 1790. On September 20, 1792, he was elected captain in the 3rd battalion of the republic, raised in Paris, and became the 4th half-brigade of infantry, he did the campaigns of 1792 to the year IV, in the armies of the Rhine, of the West and of Rhine-et-Moselle. On 1 Brumaire Year V (22 October 1796), he was transferred to the 46th half-brigade in the Army of England. In year VI, he joined the Danube army, and on 6 thermidor year VIII (24 July 1800), he was appointed chief of battalion in the Rhine army. He returned to France after the peace of Lunéville, and was made a knight of the Legion of Honor on the 25th of Prairial, Year XII (June 14, 1804), at the camp of Boulogne, where he remained employed until the end of 1807. He was appointed colonel on September 13, 1808, in the 120th regiment of line infantry, attached to the 2nd corps of the Spanish army. He was wounded in the right foot and left thigh on November 29, 1810, at the Fresno affair. He was promoted to the rank of officer of the Legion of Honor on October 1, 1810, and continued his services at the outposts of the army of the Midi in the division of General Bonet. He was promoted to brigadier general on February 7, 1812, and was cited in such an honorable manner by General Clauzel in his report of September 24, that the Emperor created him a baron of the Empire on December 30, 1812. In 1813, he was sent to the army of Portugal with General Count Reille, he distinguished himself at the Battle of Vitoria on June 21, 1813, and after the evacuation of the peninsula, he went from Bayonne to the Grand Army, where he took place in General Boyer's division. He was wounded by a gunshot to the head on February 13, 1814, at the affair of the bridge of Bray-sur-Seine. While not active in Tours, he was made a knight of Saint-Louis on October 5, 1814, by King Louis XVIII. During the Hundred Days, he took command of the city, the castle and the district of Saumur, and he behaved with courage and prudence in the engagements that his troops had with the insurgents of the department. He retired on October 6, 1815, and settled in Tours where he died on April 19, 1826.
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