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SABRE D'HONNEUR DÉCERNÉ PAR LE PREMIER CONSUL À JACQUES TITARD (1765 - 182
The item was sold for 16 900 €
Fees include commission and taxes.
SABER OF HONOR AWARDED BY THE FIRST CONSUL TO JACQUES TITARD (1765 - 1826)
Solid silver mounting. Crown with gadroons and spider web.
Two-part hilt piece. Flat joint arch with two branches connecting the openwork palmette forming the shell. Tray stamped with the first rooster, large guarantee and palmette tray tail. Wooden spindle covered with silver filigree leather. Curved blade with hollow sides and gutter stamped by Mouton et Levavasseur.
It is marked on the back "Mfture du Klingenthal Coulaux frères entrep'". Iron scabbard marked "Le 1-er Consul
Au Cen Tétard Cape au 20e Rég ent de cavalerie" and "M Fture a Versailles". Two chased silver bracelets decorated with trophies.
Cap to be reattached.
France, Consulate period.
Total length: 112 cm
Enclosed is a receipt for the sum of "Eighteen hundred francs" paid by Monsieur Montégudet, Paris, on March 20, 1914 (postage stamp). For a saber of honor as described.
NOTICE DU RÉCIPIENDAIRE, EXTRAITE DES FASTES DE LA LÉGION D'HONNEUR
"TETARD (JACQUES), born May 8, 1765, in Ausey (Côte-d'Or), soldier in the 20th cavalry regiment on July 27, 1785, was appointed brigadier on November 1, 1789 and maréchal-des-logis on May 7, 1792.
From the latter date until the year IX, he fought in all the wars of the Revolution in the various armies of the Republic, and was made chief marshal-des-logis on March 16, 1793. After the affair of the 24th of the same month, at Bousbruck, where he recaptured 2 French caissons which the enemy had seized, he was promoted to the rank of second lieutenant by decree of the following April 1st. Made lieutenant on ventôse 1, an II, he was wounded by a gunshot to the left leg on floréal 19 at the Tournay affair. Captain on Thermidor 1, An VII, he charged the Hungarian troops at Marengo with the greatest intrepidity, routing them and taking many prisoners. The First Consul awarded him a saber of honor by decree of 14 Messidor An V, and on 5 Pluviôse An XI, when the 20th cavalry regiment was disbanded, made him a captain in the 12th cavalry regiment. Appointed adjutant-major in the 5th cuirassier regiment on ventôse 25, year XII, he was classified in the 6th cohort of the Légion d'Honneur, made an officer on prairial 25 of the same year, and took command of a company on pluviôse 22, year XII. He then fought in the campaigns of XIV, 1806, 1807 and 1809 in Austria, Prussia, Poland and Germany with the Grande Armée, and was promoted to squadron leader on May 5, 1807. Retired on July 27, 1811.
NOTICE DU RÉCIPIENDAIRE EXTRAITE DE L'ARMORIAL DU PREMIER EMPIRE DE REVEREND TITARD.
"Tiercé en pal| Or, three molettes gueules palewise| azure, a saber high argent, and argent, three grenades azure palewise| a bordure gules encircling the shield and charged with the sign of the legionary knights.
Jacques TITARD, knight of the empire by letters patent of July 18, 1810, donee (r. 2000) in Westphalia by imperial decree of March 19, 1808| soldier (1785), second lieutenant (April 1, 1793), lieutenant (February 19, 1794), captain (1803), squadron leader (May 5, 1807), retired in 1811, Officer of the Legion of Honor, born at Auxey-le-Grand (Côte-d'Or), May 8, 1765."
Solid silver mounting. Crown with gadroons and spider web.
Two-part hilt piece. Flat joint arch with two branches connecting the openwork palmette forming the shell. Tray stamped with the first rooster, large guarantee and palmette tray tail. Wooden spindle covered with silver filigree leather. Curved blade with hollow sides and gutter stamped by Mouton et Levavasseur.
It is marked on the back "Mfture du Klingenthal Coulaux frères entrep'". Iron scabbard marked "Le 1-er Consul
Au Cen Tétard Cape au 20e Rég ent de cavalerie" and "M Fture a Versailles". Two chased silver bracelets decorated with trophies.
Cap to be reattached.
France, Consulate period.
Total length: 112 cm
Enclosed is a receipt for the sum of "Eighteen hundred francs" paid by Monsieur Montégudet, Paris, on March 20, 1914 (postage stamp). For a saber of honor as described.
NOTICE DU RÉCIPIENDAIRE, EXTRAITE DES FASTES DE LA LÉGION D'HONNEUR
"TETARD (JACQUES), born May 8, 1765, in Ausey (Côte-d'Or), soldier in the 20th cavalry regiment on July 27, 1785, was appointed brigadier on November 1, 1789 and maréchal-des-logis on May 7, 1792.
From the latter date until the year IX, he fought in all the wars of the Revolution in the various armies of the Republic, and was made chief marshal-des-logis on March 16, 1793. After the affair of the 24th of the same month, at Bousbruck, where he recaptured 2 French caissons which the enemy had seized, he was promoted to the rank of second lieutenant by decree of the following April 1st. Made lieutenant on ventôse 1, an II, he was wounded by a gunshot to the left leg on floréal 19 at the Tournay affair. Captain on Thermidor 1, An VII, he charged the Hungarian troops at Marengo with the greatest intrepidity, routing them and taking many prisoners. The First Consul awarded him a saber of honor by decree of 14 Messidor An V, and on 5 Pluviôse An XI, when the 20th cavalry regiment was disbanded, made him a captain in the 12th cavalry regiment. Appointed adjutant-major in the 5th cuirassier regiment on ventôse 25, year XII, he was classified in the 6th cohort of the Légion d'Honneur, made an officer on prairial 25 of the same year, and took command of a company on pluviôse 22, year XII. He then fought in the campaigns of XIV, 1806, 1807 and 1809 in Austria, Prussia, Poland and Germany with the Grande Armée, and was promoted to squadron leader on May 5, 1807. Retired on July 27, 1811.
NOTICE DU RÉCIPIENDAIRE EXTRAITE DE L'ARMORIAL DU PREMIER EMPIRE DE REVEREND TITARD.
"Tiercé en pal| Or, three molettes gueules palewise| azure, a saber high argent, and argent, three grenades azure palewise| a bordure gules encircling the shield and charged with the sign of the legionary knights.
Jacques TITARD, knight of the empire by letters patent of July 18, 1810, donee (r. 2000) in Westphalia by imperial decree of March 19, 1808| soldier (1785), second lieutenant (April 1, 1793), lieutenant (February 19, 1794), captain (1803), squadron leader (May 5, 1807), retired in 1811, Officer of the Legion of Honor, born at Auxey-le-Grand (Côte-d'Or), May 8, 1765."