RARE SABER GIVEN BY THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON... - Lot 133 - Osenat

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RARE SABER GIVEN BY THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON... - Lot 133 - Osenat
RARE SABER GIVEN BY THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON 1ST TO HIS 1ST PAGE, CHARLES GABRIEL CESAR GUDIN, DURING THE HUNDRED DAYS. Handle in squared wood. Chased and gilded brass mounting, pommel engraved with the number "CG" ("César Gudin") interlaced, hilt (gilded) with one branch, ending in palmette in the upper part, half-ribs gadrooned, quillon curved downwards ending in melon rib. Body knot engraved on one side "To Count Gudin first page of the Emperor" and on the reverse "May 2, 1815" (date of his appointment). Curved blade with flat back and hollow sides, engraved, gilded and blued on one third. Blued steel scabbard (small fracture towards the bowl) with two brass straps and rings, Length : 105 cm. B.E. Hundred Days period (May 1815). Provenance : -Descendancy of General César Gudin. -Then private collections. Biography: Charles-Gabriel-César, Count GUDIN (1798-1814), son of Major General Count Charles-Etienne Gudin de La Sablonnière, mortally wounded at Valoutina on August 19, 1812, and of Jeannette-Caroline-Christine Creutzer, was born in Bitche (Moselle) on April 30, 1798. Charles Gudin entered the military career in 1812 as a page of the emperor's household, he was then 14 years old. During the first Restoration, he was appointed second lieutenant of the bodyguards of Louis XVIII but became first page of Napoleon I during the Hundred Days. Lieutenant in the 3rd regiment of hussars in 1817, he was captain of the Chartres hussars in 1823 and followed his uncle, Pierre-César Gudin, as an orderly during the Spanish expedition. He became marshal of camp in 1846 and divisional officer in 1852. Senator under the Second Empire.
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