MISCELLANEOUS. Small green leather wallet embossed with decorative motifs and in gold letters "13th Battalion of Foot Chasseurs", inside, handwritten indication: "Mr PONSARD, Chef de bataillon, 1854". 14 X 18.5 cm. ABE Jean-Baptiste Félix PONSARD (1817-1878), took command of the battalion at its creation in January 1854, which he led in Algeria from 1856 to 1859, colonel in 1866, he commanded the 4th Voltigeurs de la Garde in 1870. Taken prisoner at Metz.