Certificate of appointment as Chevalier in the Legion of Honour, (Philippe, Count of Artois, 1757-1836, King of France and Navarre, the Last King of France to be crowned at Rheims, May 1825, Leader of the Emigrés)

CHARLES X

Publication Date: 1826

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in French with translation, for Claude Joseph Denis Rayon, Deputy Head of Bureau in the Ministry of War, "for the services he has rendered us and the State", to rank from the 23rd May 1825, signed by the King with his stamp as Sovereign Head of the Order, signed also by the Grand Chancellor Jacques Alexandre Macdonald, 1765-1840, Duke of Taranto, and by the Secretary-General Vicomte de Saimmare, finely engraved with manuscript additions, with the Royal Arms at the head and the motto 'Honour and Country', and a border incorporating the badge of the order (lilies of France, crowned), vellum, 14½" x 17½", Tuileries, 1st March He was an uncle of the uncrowned Louis XVII and younger brother to reigning kings Louis XVI and Louis XVIII, he supported the latter in exile. After the Bourbon Restoration in 1814, Charles (as heir-presumptive) became the leader of the ultra-royalists, a radical monarchist faction within the French court that affirmed absolute monarchy by divine right and opposed the constitutional monarchy concessions towards liberals and the guarantees of civil liberties granted by the Charter of 1814.

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• Title: Certificate of appointment as Chevalier in the Legion of Honour, (Philippe, Count of Artois, 1757-1836, King of France and Navarre, the Last King of France to be crowned at Rheims, May 1825, Leader of the Emigrés)
• Publication Date: 1826
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
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