France, Reign of Louis XVIII, First Restoration (1814-1815). - Lot 101

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France, Reign of Louis XVIII, First Restoration (1814-1815). - Lot 101
France, Reign of Louis XVIII, First Restoration (1814-1815). Loyalty ring of the King's Bodyguards of the Military Household of the King, having belonged to Louis MOUGIN. Gilded copper ring, with bezel, the ring decorated with friezes of acanthus leaves and two shields on both sides of the bezel. Round bezel chased with a flaming pomegranate with motto on the edge "Honor and Country". The two shields are chiseled vertically with the mottos "Honor" for one and "Fidelity" for the other. The inside of the ring presents two right hands embraced in relief with chiseled inscription, on either side, "Mis de la Rochejaquelein" for Marquis de la Rochejaquelein, and "Mougin. L." as well as the date "1815" surmounting both hands. Worn. (wear and patina of time, good condition). Inside diameter of the ring: 23.3 mm. It is presented in a modern custom-made glass box frame of fine quality and bearing a modern handwritten label "ANNEAU DE FIDELITE, Garde du Corps ou Mousquetaire du Roi, Intérieur deux mains croisées, Mis de la Rochejaquelein, Mougin L., Mis pour Marquis, Époque Restauration". (20 x 25 x 4 cm). Provenance: originally, this fidelity ring came from the collection of Gabriel Cottreau, author of the articles "Military rings of 1815 and 1824", Carnets de la Sabretache, Paris, March 1904. Notes : - Louis MOUGIN, born on May 20, 1780 in Brouville in the Meurthe and Garde du Corps du Roi in 1822. - During the 1st Restoration, Louis XVIII tried to recreate the Military House as it had been in its heyday, even re-establishing the essentially ceremonial units dissolved by Louis XVI in 1787. The King sought to give emigrant royalist officers a military role. However, there was not enough time to form a new Swiss Guard before the return of Napoleon in March 1815. The Military House disintegrated when Louis XVIII fled to Ghent and only 450 men were left to cross the Belgian border. After the Second Restoration, no serious attempt was made to restore the King's Military House and it was replaced, with the exception of the Compagnies des Gardes du Corps and the Cent-Suisses, by a Garde Royale whose strength was similar to that of a division. The Royal Guard was composed of eight regiments of Infantry, eight regiments of Cavalry and one regiment of Artillery. It was dismissed on August 11, 1830 following the Three Glorious Years and the expulsion of the elder branch of the Bourbon family.
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