BEAUTIFUL SHAKO FOR A SUPERIOR OFFICER OF THE 79th INFANTRY - Lot 61

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BEAUTIFUL SHAKO FOR A SUPERIOR OFFICER OF THE 79th INFANTRY - Lot 61
BEAUTIFUL SHAKO FOR A SUPERIOR OFFICER OF THE 79th INFANTRY REGIMENT. Cardboard barrel covered with black felt. Black leather cap and embossed visor. Double silver braid and black velvet bourdalou. Model 1812 eagle plate with "79" applied; silver-plated brass chinstraps with scales and pomegranate rosettes. Blue velvet-lined chinstraps. Embroidered tricolor cockade. Scarlet pompom. Inner leather wolf's tooth cap. B.E. First Empire period. Inside label "A la Couronne d'Or, Gandon Gandoin, fabricant de dorures et de passementerie, fournisseur des troupes, rue grand pont n°26 à Rouen". This shako would have belonged to Colonel Baron Gay, whose service record is attached. Provenance: -" Collections de décorations et armes anciennes", Hôtel Drouot, Maître Vincent, June 23, 1960, expert Robert Jean Charles. -" Armes anciennes et souvenirs historiques", Hôtel Drouot, Maître de Maigret, November 18, 2009, n°334. Biography : GAY Louis (1772-1838). Captain in the 1st Mont-Blanc Battalion, incorporated on Germinal 26, Year II into the provisional 5th demi-brigade, which later became the 18th line infantry regiment. He served in the Eastern Pyrenees army from 1793 to Year III, in Italy and Switzerland in Years IV, V and VI, and in Egypt and Syria from Year VII to Year IX, where he was shot in the right leg. Battalion commander on Prairial 11, year IX. Appointed major in the 35th line infantry regiment on 11 Brumaire, An XII, then member of the Legion of Honor on 4 Germinal. Served in Holland during years XII, XIII and XIV, and in Italy from 1806 to 1809. Louis Gay, colonel on March 31, 1809 and chevalier de l'Empire with endowment on August 15. Takes command of the 79th Line Regiment on September 24, 1809. Joined the Spanish army from 1811 to 1814. Officer of the Legion of Honor in 1813. Brigadier General and Baron of the Empire in 1814. Louis XVIII made him a Chevalier de Saint-Louis on August 20 of the same year, and placed him on inactive status. In 1815, he was assigned to organize the national guards of the 7th military division, then moved to the Alps army, before being returned to non-active status. Retired in 1825. History : Created during the Revolution from the Boulonnois regiment, the 79th line infantry regiment joined the Army of Italy (1797) and occupied the island of Corfu (1798-1799). On 18 Brumaire 1799, the 79th took part in Bonaparte's coup d'état, entering the chamber of the Conseil des Cinq-Cents. In the Army of the West from 1800 to 1802, then in Saint-Domingue (1802-1803), again in the Army of Italy (1805) and Naples, in the Army of Dalmatia (1806-1809), in Spain (1810-1814). In 1813, the 4th battalion of the 79th regiment took part in the German campaign. Disbanded in 1815.
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