GENERAL PILLE Letters Patent, patent of nobility... - Lot 178 - Osenat

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GENERAL PILLE Letters Patent, patent of nobility... - Lot 178 - Osenat
GENERAL PILLE Letters Patent, patent of nobility of count in the name of Lieutenant General Louis Antoine PILLE, Lieutenant General, Inspector General of Infantry. Coat of arms painted au naturel in the upper left corner. On vellum (missing lower left corner), with engraved header "LOUIS PAR LA GRACE DE DIEU ROI DE FRANCE ET DE NAVARRE". Done in Paris on December 23, 1815. Signed " Louis " and of the guard of the Seals François Barbé Marbois. With its ribbons and its green wax seal representing King Louis XVIII in majesty and the Arms of France and Navarre. In its iron case, complete. Louis Antoine PILLE (1749-1828) First admitted as a student commissioner of wars, he served from 1767 to 1776 as secretary of the intendances of Amiens, Rennes and Dijon. Appointed on August 30, 1791 as lieutenant-colonel of the 1st battalion of volunteers of the Côte-d'Or, he served in the army of the Center in 1792. At the beginning of 1793, he was transferred to the army of the North, where he took part in the bombardment of Maestricht, the battle of Nerwinde and the fight of Pellenbeck, and was shot in the head. Confirmed in the rank of adjutant-general and brigade commander on August 15, 1793, he obtained the rank of brigadier-general on December 2, 1793. He obtained letters of service to pass with this rank to the army of the Alps, when on April 20, 1794, the Committee of Public Salvation appointed him to the National Convention to fulfill the functions of commissioner of the organization and the movement of the land armies. He was appointed Major General on November 13, 1794, and had several commands in the interior. Charged in the year VI with the command in chief of twelve of the departments of the South of France, from the Alps and the Pyrenees to the Ocean, he received from General Bonaparte a letter in which the following sentence is found: "The government could not entrust in wiser hands more important functions." Appointed chief inspector of reviews on September 19, 1801, he was in charge of increasing the armament of the Western coasts, especially those of the roadstead and the port of Boulogne, and took part in the various engagements that took place in view of this place. After the treaty of Amiens, the First Consul attached him to the central committee of reviews and administration of troops. On September 6, 1803, he was sent on tour to the 27th military division (army of Italy), where he received the decoration of the Legion of Honor on March 25, 1804, and the officer cross of the same order on January 17, 1805. In 1807 he was put in charge of the general inspection of the infantry troops stationed in Italy and in the kingdom of Naples. When he returned to France, he was transferred to the 10th and 11th military divisions with the same functions in October 1808. He was created knight of the Empire on March 18, 1809. He was made available on May 1, 1814, knight of Saint-Louis on July 19 of the same year, commander of the Legion of Honor on the following November 1, Louis XVIII granted him the title of count on September 23, 1815. On December 30, 1814, he was employed as inspector general of infantry in the 16th military division (Lille). Admitted to retirement on September 6, 1815, he died in Soissons on October 7, 1828.
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