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LEGION OF HONOR. 1856. MARÉCHAL VAILLANT. ALGERIA. Lettre d'Avis de promotion d'Officier dans la Légion d'Honneur de Mr GRESLEY (Henri François Xavier) Chef d'Escadron au Corps de l'État-major, Directeur des Affaires ARABES de la Division de CONSTANTINE (Algérie). Signed by Marshal Jean Baptiste Philibert VAILLANT (Dijon 1790-1872), Minister of War. Paris, September 3, 1856. 1p in-folio.

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LEGION OF HONOR. 1856. MARÉCHAL VAILLANT. ALGERIA. Lettre d'Avis de promotion d'Officier dans la Légion d'Honneur de Mr GRESLEY (Henri François Xavier) Chef d'Escadron au Corps de l'État-major, Directeur des Affaires ARABES de la Division de CONSTANTINE (Algérie). Signed by Marshal Jean Baptiste Philibert VAILLANT (Dijon 1790-1872), Minister of War. Paris, September 3, 1856. 1p in-folio.

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[DODE DE LA BRUNERIE (Guillaume). Set of about twenty pieces. 1807-1843. Some of these pieces glued to others in the margins. Concerning the decorations of Marshal Dode de La Brunerie. - Order of the Legion of Honor: letter announcing that Marshal Massena has requested his promotion to the Order, signed by General Nicolas Léonard Bagert Beker as Chief of the General Staff of the V Corps (Prasnitz, now Przasnysz north of Warsaw in Poland, 1807); letter announcing that Napoleon I has made him an officer (Château de Finkenstein, now Kamienec in Poland, 1807); brevet de commandeur, signed by Louis XVIII (scratch) and countersigned by, among others, Marshal Étienne Macdonald as Grand Chancellor (1817); letter accompanying the dispatch of his brevet de commandeur, signed by Marshal Étienne Macdonald as Grand Chancellor (1817); letter announcing that the Duc d'Angoulême, General-in-Chief of the Army of the Pyrenees, has appointed him Grand Officer, signed by General Armand Charles Guilleminot as Major-General of this army (Madrid, 1823); letter confirming his appointment as grand-officer, signed by Marshal Étienne Macdonald as grand-chancellor (1823); brevet de grand officier signed by Louis XVIII (scratch) and countersigned by Marshal Étienne Macdonald as grand-chancellor (1823); letter accompanying the dispatch of his brevet de grand officier, signed by Marshal Étienne Macdonald as grand-chancellor (1824); 2 letters announcing that he has been raised to the dignity of grand-croix, signed by Marshal Nicolas Jean-de-Dieu Soult as President of the Council and then Minister of War (1843); letter announcing that he has been sent the brevet de grand-croix, signed by Marshal Maurice Gérard as Grand Chancellor (1843). With an autograph color plan by Guillaume Dode de La Brunerie depicting "the disposition of the troops of the Armée des Côtes, at the camp de Boulogne, on the occasion of the distribution of the 1,700 decorations of the [Légion d'honneur] awarded by the Emperor in person" on 28 thermidor an XII [August 16, 1804]. - Ordre de Saint-Louis: letters of knighthood, document signed by Louis XVIII and countersigned by General Pierre-Antoine Dupont de L'Étang as Minister of War (June 27, 1814); letter informing him that the Duc d'Angoulême, Commander-in-Chief of the Army of the Pyrenees, has appointed him Commander, signed by General Armand Charles Guilleminot as Major-General of this army (1823). - Military Order of Maximilian Joseph of Bavaria: decree appointing him knight, signed by King Maximilian I of Bavaria (1807). - Order of Military Merit of Bavaria: letter announcing that Louis XVIII had authorized him to wear the knighthood, signed by Marshal Étienne Macdonald as Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honor (1823). - Order of Charles III of Spain: brevet de chevalier grand-croix signed by King Ferdinand VII and countersigned by several persons (1823); letter informing him that the King has confirmed the provisional authorization granted to him by the Duc d'Angoulême to wear the decoration of chevalier grand-croix, signed by Marshal Étienne Macdonald as Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honor (1824). - Order of Saint Alexander Nevsky of Russia: knighthood patent signed by Tsar Alexander I (1824, in Russian with translation attached); letter informing him that Louis XVIII had authorized him to wear the knighthood decoration (1824).

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FRANCE ORDRE DE LA LEGION D'HONNEUR, instituted in 1802. Important grand-croix plaque from the IInd Republic period, once belonging to Marshal Dode de la Brunerie. Five-branched double star in silver, worked to a diamond point, with tricolor flags in enameled gold (one of the motifs is missing). Silver center, with legend "BONAPARTE PREMIER CONSUL HONNEUR ET PATRIE" and profile of Bonaparte head to right in gold. Vermeil reverse with rocking clasp and two hooks. 104 mm.72 g. B. (Missing lower ribbon motif with attachment hook; one flag motif detached). Provenance: -Marechal Guillaume Dode de la Brunerie, -Then descendants. History: Dode had been Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor since April 28, 1843.

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