Lot n° 89
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20000 - 30000
EUR
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: 27 300EUR
Award saber for Citoyen Lahure, Chef de Brigade, - Lot 89
Award saber for Citoyen Lahure, Chef de Brigade,
given by the Executive Directory.
Chased, gilded brass mounting. Basane-covered handle with double chain filigree. Short-skirted cap, cut with daylight and line-decorated. Single-branch hilt stamped "Manufacture A Versailles" on the front, with two shuttle-shaped auricles with hollow bodies raised by the line and a straight quillon with flower button. Stamped "Boutet" on the underside of the hilt and hallmarked "AB" and "LD". Flat-backed curved blade, signed "Pierre Guillaume Knecht Fabricant à Solingen", with counter-edge and hollow sides, engraved, gilded and one-third blued. Gilded brass scabbard with a basane hollow, two line-decorated bracelets and two brass rings, iron sting (spur strikes at the base), engraved on the upper part "Le Directoire Exécutif au Cen Lahure Chef de Brigade".
B.E. Directoire period (1799)
A modern oval brass medallion with a reproduction of an engraving of the portrait of citoyen Lahure.
Provenance:
- L'Empire à Fontainebleau, souvenirs du général Lahure, Fontainebleau (Maître Osenat), March 22, 2009, expert Jean Claude Dey.
- Jean Louis Noisiez Collection.
History:
"Paris, 20 nivôse an VII de la République une et indivisible.
The Minister of War
To citizen Lahure, brigade commander of the 15th light infantry.
The glorious part you played, citizen, on 14 frimaire last, in the success of the Republic's arms, by stopping, at the head of the brave demi-brigade you command, a Neapolitan column, at the important passage of Rignano, has earned you the satisfaction of the Executive Directory. As a token of their appreciation, they have awarded you a saber. I shall be sending you this honorable award shortly.
Greetings and fraternity".
Signed "Schérer".
Bibliography:
Extract from "Souvenirs de la vie militaire du Lieutenant-général Baron L-J Lahure, 1787-1815".
Published by his grandson Baron P. Lahure. Paris. A. Lahure, imprimeur-éditeur, 1895. Page 169.
LAHURE Louis-Joseph
(1767-1853)
Baron, general, born in Mons (Belgium)
December 29, 1767, died at
château de Wavrechain-sous-Faulx
near Bouchain (Nord) on October 24
1853. Studied at the University of Louvain
of Louvain when, at the time of the
the Brabant revolution, he volunteered
as a volunteer in the Belgian
Belgian insurrectionary troops, 1787; vice-quartier-
master in the Hainaut regiment, 1788; second lieutenant,
1789; took refuge in Lille, France, 1790; lieutenant in the Belgian
service of France, 1792; captain in the same legion in the
l'armée du Nord, 1792: served at the attack on Courrai: at the defense of
Lille, 1792; served in the capture of the citadel of Antwerp; in charge of organizing
Belgian battalions in Brussels; battalion commander in the
1793; in front of Valenciennes during the attacks of 1793; in the
deliverance of Dunkirk, at Hondschoote: served at Wattignies; chief of the
of the 3rd battalion of Belgian chasseurs-tirailleurs in the Armée du Nord,
1794; commanded the vanguard of the Souham division
of Mouscron; took 300 prisoners at Deynze; captured Malines;
served at Boxtel, at the siege of Grave; crossed the Wahal on ice, 1795;
captured a redoubt at Golberdingen, took Buuren from the English;
entered Utrecht, Amsterdam, took Haarlem, then the Texel fleet
Texel fleet (14 vessels), held up by ice, with a company
and a squadron of hussars; in the Sambre et Meuse army, 1795:
Brigade commander of the 15th Light Division, employed in the Bernadotte division,
1796; served in the blockade of Mainz, 1796; left for the Army of Italy
with the Bemadotte division, 1797; served at the Tagliamento crossing,
the capture of Gradisca; division Rey in the army of Rome, 1798; then
Kellermann brigade; victorious at Rignano: served at Monte Alto, at the
the capture of Naples. 1799; served at Trebbia; left leg shattered by a bullet
by a bullet; transported to Piacenza, where he remained a prisoner of the Russians.
provisionally appointed brigadier general by Macdonald,
1799; crippled as a result of his wound; confirmed as brigadier general
brigadier general by the Executive Directory, 1799; deputy for the Jemappes
of Jemappes to the Corps Législatif, 1802; Commandant of the
de la Légion d'honneur, 1804; chevalier de l'Empire, 1811; baron de l'Empire
de l'Empire, 1813; chevalier de Saint-Louis, 1814; commandant
arrondissements of Douai and Cambrai; naturalized French, 1814;
commander of the Nord department, 1815; superior commander
of Douai; placed on inactive status, 1815; retired to his land at Wavrechain
of Wavrechain, where he cultivated beet; honorary lieutenant-general
honorary lieutenant-general, 1818; retired, 1818, reactivated
as commander of the 1st subdivision (Nord), 1830; lieutenant-general
general, 1831; gra
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