BORDEAUX CITY ARMLET DECORATION, miniature, Restoration period. 29836.
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ARM BAND DECORATION OF THE CITY OF BORDEAUX, miniature, Restoration. 29836
Gold and enamel, model with a movable crown, fluted ring, ribbon in the colors of the three orders: Saint Louis, arm band of my city of Bordeaux, and the military order of Saint Ferdinand of Spain. H 23.4 cm x 1.3 cm.
France.
Restoration.
Very good condition.
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
On February 1, 1814, the Duke of Angoulême, nephew of King Louis XVIII, landed in Spain at Saint-Sébastien, then went to meet with the Duke of Wellington who offered him no direct support. He came to represent Louis XVIII in the southern departments of France.
On March 6, he decided to send troops to Bordeaux, whose strength was too weak to withstand a siege. Royalists pushed the imperial civil and military authorities to leave the city by inflating the English threat. On March 12, 1814, Jean-Baptiste Lynch, mayor of Bordeaux, and the companies of the royal guard welcomed General Beresford at Place Nansouty at the head of the English troops. The Duke of Angoulême arrived in Bordeaux on the same day. It was the first French city to proclaim the fall of Napoleon. The Army of the Pyrenees thus found itself with English forces at its rear.
The men of the royal guard received as a reward for their services the Decoration of the Lily, but also, and especially for those present within it before and during the day of March 12, a new distinction: the Arm Band of Bordeaux, created on June 5, 1814, by the Duke of Angoulême and awarded, from July 17, to the men of the royal foot guard as well as to the royal volunteers on horseback.
The medal of the Decoration of the Arm Band of Bordeaux
A delegation of royal volunteers, received by the king on September 6, 1814, requested the creation of a decoration. The king approved this request and it was thus created on the same day, the Decoration of the arm band of Bordeaux.
The Decoration of the arm band of Bordeaux has been called by some authors the Order of the arm band of Bordeaux, notably due to the oath, or rather the sacred commitment to support and defend the cause of the king at the cost of one's blood and life, taken by the recipients in accepting this decoration. Nevertheless, the arm band of Bordeaux has never been officially considered as an order, but as a decoration.
Gold and enamel, model with a movable crown, fluted ring, ribbon in the colors of the three orders: Saint Louis, arm band of my city of Bordeaux, and the military order of Saint Ferdinand of Spain. H 23.4 cm x 1.3 cm.
France.
Restoration.
Very good condition.
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
On February 1, 1814, the Duke of Angoulême, nephew of King Louis XVIII, landed in Spain at Saint-Sébastien, then went to meet with the Duke of Wellington who offered him no direct support. He came to represent Louis XVIII in the southern departments of France.
On March 6, he decided to send troops to Bordeaux, whose strength was too weak to withstand a siege. Royalists pushed the imperial civil and military authorities to leave the city by inflating the English threat. On March 12, 1814, Jean-Baptiste Lynch, mayor of Bordeaux, and the companies of the royal guard welcomed General Beresford at Place Nansouty at the head of the English troops. The Duke of Angoulême arrived in Bordeaux on the same day. It was the first French city to proclaim the fall of Napoleon. The Army of the Pyrenees thus found itself with English forces at its rear.
The men of the royal guard received as a reward for their services the Decoration of the Lily, but also, and especially for those present within it before and during the day of March 12, a new distinction: the Arm Band of Bordeaux, created on June 5, 1814, by the Duke of Angoulême and awarded, from July 17, to the men of the royal foot guard as well as to the royal volunteers on horseback.
The medal of the Decoration of the Arm Band of Bordeaux
A delegation of royal volunteers, received by the king on September 6, 1814, requested the creation of a decoration. The king approved this request and it was thus created on the same day, the Decoration of the arm band of Bordeaux.
The Decoration of the arm band of Bordeaux has been called by some authors the Order of the arm band of Bordeaux, notably due to the oath, or rather the sacred commitment to support and defend the cause of the king at the cost of one's blood and life, taken by the recipients in accepting this decoration. Nevertheless, the arm band of Bordeaux has never been officially considered as an order, but as a decoration.
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