SOULT (Nicolas Jean de Dieu, 1769-1851, Napoleon I's Marshal, Duke of Dalmatia)

Fine Letter Signed 'M[aréch]al Duc de Dalmatie' as Minister of War, in French (with translation), informing "Méry de la Canorgne ... Captain Mayor-adjutant of the native Riflemen Battalion of Oran, that by Ordinance of the 27th of this month, the King appointed him Knight of the Royal Order of the Legion of Honor ...", 1 side folio, Paris, 28th November

Soult is best known for the campaigns in the Peninsula against Wellington. On the first abdication of Napoleon, 11th April 1814, he declared himself a Royalist, and was Minister of War from December 1814 to March 1815. He subsequently declared for Napoleon again, being chief-of-staff at Waterloo, and, after a brief exile, for each change of government till his death during the Second Republic. He was twice Minister of War for Louis Philippe, 1830-1834 and again from 1840 to 1844 and this was written during his second period.
Pierre Laurent de Mery de la CANORGUE(1806-1865) was a French General and Commandant in Vienna under the second empire.

Ministère de la Guerre
Secrétariat général
Contrôle en comptabilité générale
Bureau du Secrétariat
Ordre Royal de la Légion d'Honneur
Paris le 28 novembre 1844
Le Président du Conseil, Ministre Secrétaire d'État de la Guerre informe Monsieur Méry de la Canorgne (Pierre Laurent Elzéar Gustave Jean Baptiste Léon) Capitaine Adjudant Major au Bataillon de Tirailleurs indigènes d'Oran que, par Ordonnance du 27 de ce mois, le Roi l'a nommé Chevalier de l'Ordre Royal de la Légion d'Honneur.
Avis de cette nomination est donné au Grand Chancelier de l'Ordre, qui est chargé de faire procéder à la réception de Monsieur Méry de la Canorgne et de lui remettre sa décoration.

Mr duc de Dalmatie
Ministry of War
General Secretary
Control in general accounting
Office of the Secretary
Royal Order of the Legion of Honor
Paris on November 28, 1844
The President of the Council, Minister Secretary of State for War informs Mister Méry de la Canorgne (Pierre Laurent Elzéar Gustave Jean Baptiste Léon) Captain Warrant Officer Major at the Battalion Indigenous of Tirailleurs of Oran that, by Ordinance of the 27th of this month, the King appointed him Knight of the Royal Order of the Legion of Honor.
Notice of this appointment is given to the Grand Chancellor of the Order, who is responsible for proceeding the reception of Mister Méry de la Canorgne and present him his decoration.
M. Duke of Dalmatia

Item Date:  1844

Stock No:  40016      £375

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