EMBROIDERED CIVILIAN UNIFORM that belonged to Baron Émile Bernard Jules LEGOUX, Third Republic.

EMBROIDERED CIVILIAN UNIFORM that belonged to Baron Émile Bernard Jules LEGOUX, Third Republic.

Coat entirely in dark blue, almost black cloth, buttoning straight at the front with seven buttonholes and large module gilt brass buttons, diameter 2.2 cm, decorated in relief with daisies in gilt brass. Collar, H 6 cm, of the same cloth, entirely embroidered in gilt silver thread, sequins and sequins of a vine branch with leaves and bunches of grapes and edged at the top with a straight baguette similarly embroidered in silver thread. silver gilt and sequins. Straight cut facings, similarly decorated at the collar, they are trimmed with a small module uniform button. Fake back flap pockets, embroidered identically to the collar. Waist bow simply trimmed with two large module uniform buttons.
Lining in black silk, sleeve lining in ecru canvas.

France.
Third Republic.
Very good condition, some moth holes.

NOTE :
The engraving and the portrait of Jules LEGOUX are not available for sale.

BIOGRAPHY :
Baron Émile-Bernard-Jules LEGOUX, born in Saint-Amand-Montrond on November 16, 1836 and died in Bar-sur-Seine on April 20, 1908, was a French magistrate, man of letters and politician. He was one of the leaders of the Bonapartist party in the 1890s.

Family
Born in Saint-Amand, rue Lafayette, Jules Legoux was the grandson of Bernard Legoux (1763-1845), attorney general at the courts of Dijon, Genoa then Paris, baron on April 12, 1813. This title of nobility was confirmed by letters patent of Louis XVIII of November 11, 1814.
Jules was the son of Julien-Camille Legoux (1802-1876), then prefect of Aude, and Laure-Julie-Alexandrine Monginet (v.1816-1888), from the Champagne family of Monginet-Berthelin.
On June 7, 1864, Jules Legoux married Lucie-Caroline-Eugénie Chausson, daughter of Henri Chausson, a Champagne wine merchant. Their daughter, Marguerite-Juliette-Marthe, born in 18654, married in 1888 Gabriel-Yves-Olivier-Jean-Marie, viscount (then count) of La Poëze (1861-19..), mayor of La Rabatelière (Vendée).

Career and tenure
After being a student at the Bonaparte high school, Jules Legoux obtained a law degree.
Lawyer attached to the public prosecutor's office in Paris, he began his career in the judiciary at the age of 25, when he was appointed substitute imperial prosecutor in Sainte-Ménehould by a decree of August 22, 1862. He performed the same duties in Épernay (decree of December 26, 1863), before becoming imperial prosecutor in Avallon (decree of January 9, 1869) then in Corbeil (decree of July 3, 1869). The Germans having invaded Corbeil during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, Legoux refused to fulfill his duties despite threats of imprisonment, stating that "never [he] will enforce French law under the pressure of Prussian bayonets". . A few years later, he was appointed public prosecutor in Chartres (decree of January 27, 1876).
In November 1877, he became the chief of staff of his friend François Lepelletier, appointed Keeper of the Seals in the short-lived Gaëtan de Rochebouët government. After the latter's fall, Legoux retired from the bench.
On January 23, 1881, he succeeded Charles-François Pigeaster as mayor of Chapelles-Bourbon, a village in Seine-et-Marne, where his father-in-law acquired the castle and the Beaumarchais estate in 1870. It was under his mandate that the current town hall of the commune is built according to the plans of Jules Marmottin, architect of Coulommiers. Legoux published a monograph of Chapelles-Bourbon in 1886.

Political activities
Bonapartist activist, supporter of Prince Victor, Jules Legoux presented himself in the Porte-Dauphine district on the occasion of the municipal elections of 1887. Preceded by more than 300 votes in the first round by the outgoing municipal councilor, the radical Ernest Deligny, the baron is defeated in the second round.
Two years later, on the occasion of the legislative elections of 1889, he stood as a candidate in the 2nd constituency of Troyes with the investiture of the Boulangists, campaigning alongside Millevoye and Laisant. In the first round, he came third, with 2,544 votes, behind the radical Arbouin, editor-in-chief of Le Petit Troyen (3,353 votes), and far behind the opportunist Eugène Rambourgt (5,676). Arbouin withdraws but is replaced by another radical, Jules Charonnat, outgoing deputy beaten in the first round in the constituency of Nogent-sur-Seine. This division of the Republicans does not, however, benefit Legoux, who does not progress in the second round, obtaining only 2,050 votes, behind Charonnat (4,778 votes) and Rambourgt (elected with 5,757 votes).
In 1890, Baron Legoux succeeded General du Barail as president of the imperialist (then “plebiscitary”) committees of the Seine, a structure where he was the director.