"Grand Army - 10th Corps. APPOINTMENT OF JEAN-FRANÇOIS PONCHON as a second lieutenant in the 4th Light Infantry Regiment, Dantzic on December 12, 1813 (or 1815?). 18906-6
"Grand Army - 10th Corps. Dantzic on December 12, 1813 (or 1815?).
To Mr. PONCHON Jean François, Sergeant in the 4th Light Infantry Regiment.
I hereby inform you, Sir, that by virtue of the powers granted to me by the Emperor in his letter of June 5th of the hundredth year, I have appointed you as Second Lieutenant in the said Regiment, replacing Mr. Laugier.
I am informing General-of-Division Count d'Heudelet* who commands the 30th Division of your appointment. [...]
Dimensions: 35.7 cm x 22 cm. 1 page.
Condition: Fair, torn corners with missing parts (outside of text), folds.
* Étienne Heudelet de Bierre, born on November 12, 1770, in Dijon and died on April 20, 1857, in Paris, was a French general of the Revolution and the Empire, elevated to a count of the Empire, and received distinctions under various regimes: Knight of the Order of Saint Louis in 1814, Peer of France in 1832, Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor on February 18, 1836."
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