RARE SHAKO D'OFFICIER DE GRENADIERS DU 93e RÉGIMENT D'INFANTERIE DE LIGNE, MODÈLE 1812, PREMIER EMPIRE.

Black felt-covered shaft (moth marks), leather cap, gold passementerie braid, black velvet bourdalou. With its gilded brass eagle plate with the number "93" in cut-out silver-plated metal (possibly reported, minor accidents), gilded brass scale chinstrap and grenade bosses, patent leather visor with brass snap ring (fractured). Officer's round cockade, scarlet pompom (missing inner cap, partly reassembled in the Empire period). First Empire period, 1812 model, worn in 1813. Provenance Osenat sale, Fontainebleau, November 20, 2016, lot 633. History The 93rd line infantry regiment, recruited from the Vendée region, took this name in 1803 and was disbanded in 1815. It distinguished itself particularly during the 1809 campaign at Eckmuhl, Essling and Wagram. In 1810, the regiment was assigned to the Dutch observation corps, then in 1811 to the army of Catalonia. In 1812, it took part in the Russian campaign as part of the 3rd corps of the Grande Armée, where it fought in the battles of : Smolensk, Valoutina, La Moskowa, Mojaïsk, Krasnoë, La Bérésina, Dresden, Leipzig, Magdebourg. In 1813, three battalions took part in the German campaign. In 1815, assigned to the Armée du Nord, it took part in the defeat at Waterloo (source: Bertrand Malvaux). Exhibitions - Napoleon Bonaparte and the Vendée. Saint-Sulpice-le-Verdon, Logis de la Chabotterie, May 1-October 17, 2004, and La Roche-sur-Yon, Hôtel du département, May 18-October 17, 2004. - Napoleon The Eagle Over Europe, Four exhibitions in China, Hubei Provincial Museum, Tianjin Museum, Lianonig Provincial Museum, Nanjing Museum, 2015.