WAX STAMP WITH ARMS OF Chrétien Antoine FAURE DE GIERE (1769 - Lot 139

WAX STAMP WITH ARMS OF Chrétien Antoine FAURE DE GIERE (1769-1813), baron of the Empire, colonel of the 4th horse artillery regiment, brigadier general. Oval, brass, with the coat of arms encircled by the Legion of Honor and the Iron Crown. Handle missing. B.E. First Empire period. A second cachet decorated with a tower surmounted by two kissing doves (handle missing). Biography : Chrétien Antoine FAURE DE GIERE (1769-1813) He entered the École d'artillerie as a student on September 1, 1783, and graduated on September 1, 1785 with the rank of second lieutenant in the Strasbourg artillery regiment (5th). He was successively appointed first lieutenant in the 6th foot artillery regiment on April 1, 1791, second captain in the 4th on February 6, 1792, and captain commanding officer on April 1, 1793. His distinguished conduct in the Alpine and Italian armies, from 1793 to Year V, led to his frequent inclusion in army orders. Battalion commander on Thermidor 5, Year VI (July 23, 1798), he joined the Army of the East and distinguished himself during the Egyptian and Syrian campaigns, notably at the Battle of the Pyramids, where he fought hand-to-hand with a Mamluk chief, seizing his saber and forcing him to retreat. For this episode, he received the saber of honor from the general-in-chief. On 11 Floréal Year VII (April 30, 1799), Faure was promoted to colonel, and on 1 Pluviôse Year X (January 21, 1802) to commander of the 4th horse artillery regiment. He was made a member of the Légion d'honneur on Frimaire 19, An XII (December 11, 1803), an officer of the same order on Prairial 25, An XII (June 14, 1804), and shortly afterwards was appointed elector of the Isère department. He served in the campaigns of the Grande Armée from An XIV to 1807, and was appointed commander of the 2nd artillery division under General Macdonald the following year. In 1809, at the head of his regiment, he was wounded by a bullet as he crossed the Piave, and had a horse killed beneath him at the battle of Raab. Napoleon I, on account of his conduct at the Battle of Wagram, conferred on him the title of Baron of the Empire; at around the same time, he received the decoration of the Iron Crown. Appointed brigadier general on June 23, 1811, he took part in the Russian campaign, and died in Berlin on February 2, 1813. We would like to thank Mr. Alban Pérès for his help in identifying this coat of arms.