DECORATION OF THE ARMBRASS OF THE CITY OF BORDEAUX ATTRIBUTED TO LOUIS JEAN MASSIP, infantry captain, January 10, 1816, Restoration. 27602

DECORATION OF THE ARMBRASS OF THE CITY OF BORDEAUX ATTRIBUTED TO LOUIS JEAN MASSIP, infantry captain, January 10, 1816, Restoration. 27602

9.5 cm wide white silk cuff, bordered at the top and bottom with a 7 cm wide green silk ribbon. In the center of the armband is represented a shield whose framing rod is embroidered in gilded silver threads and sequins, the center is in white silk and embroidered in green silk threads “BORDEAUX / MARCH 12, 1814”. In the front part, the cuff ends with two white silk ribbons bordered with green braid and silver fringes 5.5 cm wide, H of this part 9.5 cm.

LETTER from his Royal Highness Monsignor the Duke of Angoulême, wearing an armband decoration. H 38.5 cm, width 49.4 cm, presented folded in half. Headed to the Grandes Armes de France. With bold black ink stamp, marked “Procureur du roi / Tribunal civil de Bordeaux”. Dry stamp with the Great Imperial Arms. Wax seal with the Coat of Arms of the City of Bordeaux.

DECORATION OF THE LILY, in silver, composed of a lily surmounted by a royal crown with a green silk ribbon bordered on each side by a white net.

ROCKET for officer's hat in silver trimmings, oval shape, H 11 cm, width 8.5 cm.

PAIR OF CLOVERS, in silver trimmings mounted on scarlet cloth. Length 13.2 cm, width 8.7 cm.

ROLL-UP ORNAMENT: fleur-de-lis in threads, cannetilles and silver sequins embroidered on scarlet cloth. H 5.5cm x 4cm.

France.
Restoration.
Very good condition, lily decoration broken at the base of the crown, turndown ornament in fairly good condition.

HISTORY:
On February 1, 1814, the Duke of Angoulême, nephew of King Louis XVIII, landed in Spain, in San Sebastian, then went to the Duke of Wellington who did not offer him any frank support. He came to represent Louis XVIII in the departments of the south of France.
On March 6, decided to send troops to Bordeaux whose numbers were too weak to support a siege. The royalists pushed the imperial civil and military authorities to leave the city by increasing the English threat. On March 12, 1814 Jean-Baptiste Lynch, mayor of Bordeaux and the companies of the royal guard, welcomed General Beresford at the head of the English troops at Place Nansouty. The Duke of Angoulême arrived in Bordeaux the same day. It is the first French city to proclaim the fall of Napoleon. The Army of the Pyrenees thus found itself with the English forces at its rear.
The men of the royal guard received as a reward for their services the Decoration of the Lys, but also, and in particular for those who were present within it before and during the day of March 12, a new distinction: the Brassard de Bordeaux, created on June 5, 1814 by the Duke of Angoulême and assigned, from July 17, to the men of the royal guard on foot as well as to the royal volunteers on horseback.
The Bordeaux Armband Decoration medal
A delegation of royal volunteers, received on September 6, 1814 by the king, requested the creation of a decoration. The king approved this request and this is how the Decoration of the Bordeaux Armband was created that same day.
The Decoration of the Bordeaux Armband has been called by certain authors the Order of the Bordeaux Armband, notably because of the oath, or rather the sacred commitment, to support and defend the cause of the king at the price of his blood. and his life, taken by the holders in accepting this decoration. The fact remains that the Bordeaux armband was never officially considered as an order, but as a decoration.