Lot n° 12
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Service record of Morice de la Rue, Victor, Antoine, colonel - Lot 12
Service record of Morice de la Rue, Victor, Antoine, colonel, born April 22, 1773, in Mayenne; he began his career as a captain by election in the 4th Battalion of National Volunteers on September 6, 1792... ; appointed colonel of the 14th Light Infantry Regiment on September 16, 1814. Officer of the Order of the Legion of Honor on 26 Prairial, Year XII. Details of his campaigns and wounds: “Fought in the campaigns of 1792, 1793, and Years II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, and X with the Armies of the North, Sambre-and-Meuse, the Rhine, the West, and Italy. The campaigns of 1804 and 1805 with the Army of Italy. The campaigns of 1806 and 1807 with the Army of Dalmatia. Those of 1811 and 1812, with the Army of Catalonia. That of 1813, with the Army of Germany; taken prisoner of war on October 19, 1813, at Leipzig.
He displayed both bravery and intelligence on 14 Nivôse, Year IX, while scaling a mountain at
Serravalle in Tyrol; there he deployed his troops so effectively that 250 Austrian prisoners of war were taken, an action that earned him a saber of honor from the First Consul.”
Document partially printed on vellum, double-sided, dated December 1, 1816, signed by the general commanding the Mayenne department in Laval, Baron Destabenrath (1770–1853); gilded frame with mat (damage to the glass on the reverse); 29 x 19 cm. Restoration period. Very good condition.
Maurice LARUE or Morice de la Rue was a member of the 60½th Line Brigade at the time of his appointment to receive his saber of honor.
Copies of archival documents are enclosed and will be provided to the buyer.
Enclosed are:
Three military discharge papers, one for discharge from the 78½th Infantry Brigade, awarded to a certain Saquet, a fusilier, issued in Alexandria on the 1st of Germinal, Year IX; several signatures, including those of Generals Merle and Spital; one from the 72½th Infantry Brigade, awarded to a certain Chibout, a fusilier, issued in Asti on the 5th of Thermidor, Year IX; numerous signatures, including that of General Merle, and a permanent discharge from the 18½th Line Infantry Brigade, awarded to Citizen David
Bessière, corporal, issued in Dijon on the 28th of Thermidor, Year X; numerous signatures, including that of General Meynier. Two letters of appointment to the Order of the Lily, one addressed to Mr. Belurgay de Grandville, signed by the King’s First Valet and dated Paris, July 22, 1814; red wax seal; the other sent on the orders of His Grace the Duke of
Berry to Mr. Naudet, head of the Poitiers mail office, dated Paris, August 18, 1814; and a certificate of knighthood in the Order of the Legion of Honor on parchment, awarded to Mr. Chollet, a retired captain of the line infantry, issued at Saint-Cloud on July 29, 1819, signed: “Louis”; dry seal bearing the Great Arms of France.
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