MAGNIFICENT SWORD PRESENTED BY HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE O - Lot 176

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MAGNIFICENT SWORD PRESENTED BY HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE O - Lot 176
MAGNIFICENT SWORD PRESENTED BY HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF BERRY TO MONSIEUR LE COMTE DE MESNARD Mounted in gilded, chased and engraved bronze. Spindle with mother-of-pearl plates grooved in relief, trimmed with two baguettes on the sides, engraved with a series of laurel leaves. Helmet-shaped pommel. Single-branch hilt chased with oak and laurel leaves, decorated in the center with a medallion engraved "CF" under a crown and, on the other side, "ML" under a count's crown, ending in a crosier adorned with a fleur-de-lis, matching the quillon en suite, ending in a fleur-de-lys. Body knot with lily. Bivalve folding keyboard decorated, on one side, with the "Armes de France" and, on the other, with a trophy of arms; the whole surrounded by a guilloche frieze, a frieze of flowers and a frieze of mistletoe; under the keyboard is stamped "Donné à Monsieur le Comte de Mesnard par S.A. Royale Sa Majesté Le Duc de Berry". Strong, handsome, round-backed blade with counter-edge and hollow sides, richly engraved on a gold background, decorated on one side with the "Armes de France", trophies of arms, foliage, fleurs-de-lys, drapery and foliate scrolls; on the other side, trophies of arms, shield, crown, scrolls and floral urn. The blade is signed at the heel "Mouton fecit" on one side and "Bisch Sculpct" on the other. Wooden scabbard covered in fine black morocco, with two large gilded, engraved and chased brass fittings. Cap knob decorated with a palmette and two flowers. Mantle decorated with spider webs, flowers and moving friezes. Bouterolle decorated with flowers, spider webs and lilies. Double-button polished steel stinger. It comes with a gilded double-stranded lanyard and two twisted tassels embellished with sequins. Restoration period. Very good condition. Family provenance by inheritance. BISCH François-Xavier-André, born in 1793, son of François Joseph. Gilder, engraver and designer at the Manufacture in Klingenthal (Bas-Rhin), he signed a large number of officers' blades during the late Empire and Restoration. After the closure of the Manufacture d'État in 1836, he continued to work for the fourbisseurs in Paris and Nancy, signing his blades: F.X. Bisch à Boersch Klingenthal. History : Charles Ferdinand de Bourbon, Duc de Berry (1778-1820) was the second son of the Comte d'Artois (future Charles X) and Marie-Thérèse de Savoie. Emigrating with his father during the French Revolution, he joined the Prince de Condé's army in 1792, then went into exile in England, where he married Anne Brown and had two daughters: Charlotte Marie Augustine de Bourbon (1808-1886), who became Countess of Issoudun and Princess of Faucigny-Lucinge, and Louise Charlotte Marie de Bourbon (1809-1891), who became Countess of Vierzon and Baroness of Charette. Returning to France at the time of the First Restoration (1814), he followed his uncle Louis XVIII to Ghent during the Hundred Days. In 1816, he married Princess Marie-Caroline de Bourbon-Sicile (1798-1870), from whom he had a posthumous son, Henri d'Artois (1820-1883), Duc de Bordeaux, then "Comte de Chambord", who married Marie Thérèse de Modène (1817-1886) in 1846. The Duc de Berry and his young wife moved into the Élysée Palace in 1816, and on August 14, 1818 purchased the Château de Rosny (Yvelines), which became their summer residence. They also received the Château de Bagatelle in the Bois de Boulogne, built in 1777 by the Comte d'Artois. On Shrove Sunday, February 13, 1820, at around eleven o'clock in the evening, as he left the Opera on rue de Richelieu, the Duc de Berry was stabbed to death by Louis Pierre Louvel, a Bonapartist saddlery worker. By assassinating him, Louvel wanted to put an end to the Bourbon line. The Duc de Berry had become the last heir to the dynasty founded by Henri IV. A few months later, on September 29, 1820, his posthumous son Henri d'Artois, "the miracle child" as he was nicknamed, was born. Titled Duc de Bordeaux, then Comte de Chambord, Henri d'Artois became heir to the throne, but would never become king, the July Monarchy ending the Restoration in 1830. The Duc de Berry is buried in the Basilica of Saint-Denis, but his heart rests in the chapel of the Rosny hospice. The de Mesnard or Maynard family is one of the oldest and most honorable in the Bas-Poitou region. A charter relating to the formation of the Fontaines priory, dating from 1050, is the earliest document to mention a Maynard. This family appears with honor in the annals of Poitou and the Vendée. Christophe de MAYNARD, (1597-1655), seigneur de la Vergne, distinguished himself in the service of the monarchy against the Fronde uprising in Bas-Poitou. Alexandre de Mesnard, born
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