National Gendarmerie 35th Division. SERVICE CERTIFICATE ISSUED BY LIEUTENANT COLONEL ROSSIGNOL* TO CHARLES THEODORE MEUNIER, June 25, 1793. 18915-1
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National Gendarmerie 35th Division. CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE ISSUED BY LIEUTENANT COLONEL ROSSIGNOL* TO CHARLES THEODORE MEUNIER, June 25, 1793. 18915-1
Fully handwritten document. Letterhead "National Gendarmerie 35th Division".
Beautiful red wax seal "GENDARMERIE NATIONALE 35e DIVISION". Black ink stamp "The Law The King".
"We, Lieutenant Colonel commanding the Division, certify that citizen Charles Théodore Meunier entered into the campaign on the twenty-second of March under the orders of General Bernier and is currently under the orders of General Salomon, where he fulfilled his duty with all the exactness of a true republican until the period of May 23 when he was killed or taken prisoner by the enemies of the Public cause. It is further certified that he lost his wife on the eve of the battle where he may have lost his life and left a child of two years old in need of assistance.
Army of the Coasts of La Rochelle near Niort. Done at (?) on June 25, 1793.
Signed: MIROY Captain; ROSSIGNOL Lieutenant Colonel of the division".
H 23.5 cm x 18.5 cm. 1 page.
Good condition, small tears at fold marks.
* Jean-Antoine ROSSIGNOL, also known as the Eldest Son of the Fatherland, was a revolutionary militant and a general of the French Revolution, born on November 7, 1759, in Paris and died on April 27, 1802, in Mutsamudu, Anjouan Island, in the Comoros archipelago.
Goldsmith's apprentice. Faced with difficulties in finding work, he enlisted in the army under the Old Regime. On August 13, 1775, he joined the Royal-Roussillon regiment in Dunkirk under the name "Francœur". He developed a taste for military life and the art of warfare but also showed a readiness for conflict. In 1783, he was granted leave due to seniority and resumed his goldsmith profession.
[...] When the Revolution broke out, Jean Antoine Rossignol was in Paris, on Rue de Charenton, at the entrance of the faubourg Saint-Antoine. On July 14, 1789, he took part in the storming of the Bastille. Appointed a member of the Insurrectional Commune, he joined the General Council and the first surveillance committee.
Captain on August 25, 1792, and then Lieutenant Colonel of the gendarmerie on April 9, 1793, he went to Vendée and was assigned to the Army of the coasts of La Rochelle on April 12. Successively promoted provisional Adjutant-General on April 12, Chief of Brigade Adjutant-General on July 10, Brigadier General on July 12, and Divisional General on July 15, he was appointed, under the protection of General Charles-Philippe Ronsin, as the Chief General of the Army of the Coasts of La Rochelle, replacing Biron (dismissed and arrested) on July 24, a nomination confirmed by the Convention decree on July 27 and officially effective on July 31.
[...] On September 29, 1793, Rossignol was appointed Chief General of the Army of the coasts of Brest, replacing Canclaux, dismissed on October 1. Leaving his first command on October 5, he took on the next one the following day. Then on November 11, he was also appointed Commander-in-Chief of the new Army of the West (composed of the Army of the coasts of La Rochelle, part of the Brest Coast Army, and the Army of Mayence), a decision effective on November 14. Finally, on November 18, he also took the lead of a third army, the Army of the coasts of Cherbourg. However, this last command was revoked on November 25 after the defeat of Dol, as well as that of the Army of the West on December 4, which was given to General Léchelle.
[...] After the coup d'état of 18 Brumaire, he was exiled from Paris at the beginning of the Consulate. Then Napoleon used the rue Saint-Nicaise bombing to get rid of him and decapitate the neo-Jacobin opposition. Rossignol was imprisoned, moved from prison to prison, and sentenced to deportation to the Seychelles in 1801, along with other Jacobins. He was embarked in Nantes on the frigate la Chiffonne for the islands of the Indian Ocean [...]
Fully handwritten document. Letterhead "National Gendarmerie 35th Division".
Beautiful red wax seal "GENDARMERIE NATIONALE 35e DIVISION". Black ink stamp "The Law The King".
"We, Lieutenant Colonel commanding the Division, certify that citizen Charles Théodore Meunier entered into the campaign on the twenty-second of March under the orders of General Bernier and is currently under the orders of General Salomon, where he fulfilled his duty with all the exactness of a true republican until the period of May 23 when he was killed or taken prisoner by the enemies of the Public cause. It is further certified that he lost his wife on the eve of the battle where he may have lost his life and left a child of two years old in need of assistance.
Army of the Coasts of La Rochelle near Niort. Done at (?) on June 25, 1793.
Signed: MIROY Captain; ROSSIGNOL Lieutenant Colonel of the division".
H 23.5 cm x 18.5 cm. 1 page.
Good condition, small tears at fold marks.
* Jean-Antoine ROSSIGNOL, also known as the Eldest Son of the Fatherland, was a revolutionary militant and a general of the French Revolution, born on November 7, 1759, in Paris and died on April 27, 1802, in Mutsamudu, Anjouan Island, in the Comoros archipelago.
Goldsmith's apprentice. Faced with difficulties in finding work, he enlisted in the army under the Old Regime. On August 13, 1775, he joined the Royal-Roussillon regiment in Dunkirk under the name "Francœur". He developed a taste for military life and the art of warfare but also showed a readiness for conflict. In 1783, he was granted leave due to seniority and resumed his goldsmith profession.
[...] When the Revolution broke out, Jean Antoine Rossignol was in Paris, on Rue de Charenton, at the entrance of the faubourg Saint-Antoine. On July 14, 1789, he took part in the storming of the Bastille. Appointed a member of the Insurrectional Commune, he joined the General Council and the first surveillance committee.
Captain on August 25, 1792, and then Lieutenant Colonel of the gendarmerie on April 9, 1793, he went to Vendée and was assigned to the Army of the coasts of La Rochelle on April 12. Successively promoted provisional Adjutant-General on April 12, Chief of Brigade Adjutant-General on July 10, Brigadier General on July 12, and Divisional General on July 15, he was appointed, under the protection of General Charles-Philippe Ronsin, as the Chief General of the Army of the Coasts of La Rochelle, replacing Biron (dismissed and arrested) on July 24, a nomination confirmed by the Convention decree on July 27 and officially effective on July 31.
[...] On September 29, 1793, Rossignol was appointed Chief General of the Army of the coasts of Brest, replacing Canclaux, dismissed on October 1. Leaving his first command on October 5, he took on the next one the following day. Then on November 11, he was also appointed Commander-in-Chief of the new Army of the West (composed of the Army of the coasts of La Rochelle, part of the Brest Coast Army, and the Army of Mayence), a decision effective on November 14. Finally, on November 18, he also took the lead of a third army, the Army of the coasts of Cherbourg. However, this last command was revoked on November 25 after the defeat of Dol, as well as that of the Army of the West on December 4, which was given to General Léchelle.
[...] After the coup d'état of 18 Brumaire, he was exiled from Paris at the beginning of the Consulate. Then Napoleon used the rue Saint-Nicaise bombing to get rid of him and decapitate the neo-Jacobin opposition. Rossignol was imprisoned, moved from prison to prison, and sentenced to deportation to the Seychelles in 1801, along with other Jacobins. He was embarked in Nantes on the frigate la Chiffonne for the islands of the Indian Ocean [...]
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