WALLET WITH GUSSET in red morocco gilt with small irons nominative "M. le Marquis de Rochelambert / Maréchal des Camps et Armées du Roi". Silver lock plate. 18th century. Height: 29 cm - Width: 40.2 cm (Minor accidents and visible missing parts) Attached is a later red morocco label red morocco label: "Mr le Comte de La Rochelambert / Rue St. Dominique Dominique N°74" in a gilt frame with fleur-de-lys.18th century This portfolio belonged to Gabriel Armand Benoît, Marquis de La Rochelambert (1722 - 1785) who was successively colonel of a regiment of Royal Grenadiers Royal Grenadiers in 1761. He had been at various battles and sieges; he was wounded wounded by a gunshot to the knee at Mons in 1746, appointed for the King, commander of the castle of Marbourg in Hesse, in 1762; wounded the same year at the head of his regiment regiment, by a shot to the body, at the affair of Willemstadt or Grebenstein, on 24 June, where several horses were killed, including one including one under him, and was taken prisoner of war; was created knight of the royal and military order of Saint-Louis after this action, obtained a pension from the King in 1763; admitted to ride in the carriages of the late Louis XV, on proof of his house in 1764; created brigadier of the armies in 1769, designated by a letter, in the name Majesty, to be appointed marshal-de-camp at the first camp at the first promotion; which took place. Died without posterity, this portfolio probably passed to his nephew Gabriel René François, comte de La Rochelambert (1755 - 1821) who married Charlotte née de Dreux-Brézé, whose descendants remain. PROVENANCE:- Roger de Montégudet collection (1880-1925) - by descent to this day.