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PILLE. Reform Leave Certificate. 105 Demi-Brigade d'Infanterie.

PILLE, Louis Antoine. Reform Leave Certificate. 105 Demi-Brigade d'Infanterie. Lyon, 11 December 1798 Oblong folio. 244x325. Illustrations printed in woodcut, with the symbols of the revolution, the fasces and the Phrygian cap at the top, soldiers of the revolutionary army on the sides. Within the central box the text is partly printed and partly handwritten. Red wax seal with the Coat of Arms of the Demi-Brigade and oval stamp of the "Departement de la Guerre". Top right handwritten signature of General L. A. Pille; below several signatures of the Commissioners and members of the Board of Directors of the 'Demi-Brigade'. Slight traces especially on the margins. Reform leave for Laurent Remaque, 'fusilier' of the Demi-Brigade. At the bottom the date "Lyon le Vingt-unieme jur du mois de Frimaire l'an Septieme de la Republique francaise...". The document is countersigned by the Adjutant General Pille, Chef d'Etat-Amjour of the 19th Division Militaire." The 105 Demi-Brigade actively participated in the revolutionary war: in 1799 it played an important role in the Italian Campaign.Louis Antoine Pille, 1749-1828, was a prominent general of the French Revolution and the Empire. He was appointed General of Division in 1795; in the year VI, September 22, 1797 - September 21, 1798, he was entrusted with the command-in-chief of twelve departments of Southern France, from the Alps and the Pyrenees to the Ocean. He received a letter from General Bonaparte in which the sentence appears, "Le gouvernement ne pouvait confier en des mains plus sages des fonctions plus importantes."

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PILLE. Reform Leave Certificate. 105 Demi-Brigade d'Infanterie.

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