Memoirs of Alphonse Frédéric Emmanuel, Count of Grouchy (178 - Lot 70

Memoirs of Alphonse Frédéric Emmanuel, Count of Grouchy (1789–1864). Son of Marshal de Grouchy, in 1806 he attended the Military Academy of Fontainebleau, Second Lieutenant in the 10th Dragoon Regiment, wounded at Eylau in 1807, aide-de-camp to his father, distinguished himself at Wagram in 1809, made a Knight of the Legion of Honor, wounded at the Battle of the Moskva, He led a charge at Waterloo at the head of the 12th Chasseurs Regiment. During the Restoration, he was on half pay and left for the United States. Upon the arrival of King Louis-Philippe, he was colonel of the 3rd Regiment of Mounted Chasseurs and a deputy from the Allier department; he was appointed field marshal in 1831. He served as a member of the Committee and later as Cavalry Inspector, first in France and then in Algeria. In 1842, he was a Lieutenant General; a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor in 1849; and became a Senator in 1852, receiving the Royal and Military Order of Saint Louis. Knight’s Cross, Louis-Philippe era. Gold, enamel (chips), modern ribbon. (obverse missing) From the family collection, then passed down through the family.