Wallet in green morocco, gilded with irons, silvered brass l - Lot 296

Lot n° 296
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Wallet in green morocco, gilded with irons, silvered brass l - Lot 296
Wallet in green morocco, gilded with irons, silvered brass lock with its key, it is marked: ''CORVETTO STATE COUNSELLOR''. (Leather restorations) CORVETTO Louis-Emmanuel (16 July 1756/21 May 1821), a French politician, originally from the Republic of Genoa, joined the provisional government of the Ligurian Republic, where he headed the board of directors in 1801, member of the Supreme Court of Genoa, after 1805, when the Ligurian Republic was attached to France, he entered the service of Napoleon, joined the Council of State and participated in the drafting of the Commercial Code of 1807. Napoleon awarded him the title of Count of the Empire by decree of 3 December 1809. He remained in the service of the state during the Restoration of Louis XVIII and became Minister of Finance, from 26 September 1815 to 7 December 1818, in the first cabinet of the Duke of Richelieu. He was one of the founders, in 1816, of the Caisse des dépôts et consignations...$$$.
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