SABRE OF HONOUR AWARDED BY THE FIRST CONSUL CONSUL TO JACQUES TITARD (1765 - 1826) Solid silver mounting. Cap with gadroons and spider web. Hilt in two assembled parts. Flat joint arch with two branches connecting the openwork palmette forming the shell. Top stamped with the first cock, large guarantee and tail of plate with palmette. Spindle in wood covered with silver filigree leather. Curved blade with hollow punched by Mouton and Levavasseur. It is marked on the back "Mfture du Klingenthal Coulaux frères entrep'". Iron scabbard marked "Le 1-er Consul Au Cen Tétard Cape au 20e Rég ent de cavalerie" and "M Fture a Versailles". Two chased silver bracelets decorated with trophies. trophies. Cap to be reattached. France, Consulate period. Total length: 112 cm Enclosed is a receipt for the sum of "eighteen hundred paid by Monsieur Montégudet, Paris, 20 March 1914 (postage stamp). For a sabre of honour as described. NOTICE OF THE RECIPIENT, EXTRACTED FROM THE SPLENDOURS OF THE LEGION OF HONOUR "TETARD (JACQUES), born on 8 May 1765, in Ausey (Côte-d'Or), soldier in the 20th cavalry regiment on 27 July 1785, was appointed brigadier on 1 November 1789 and marshal-des-logis on 7 May 1792. From that time until the year IX he fought in all the wars of the Revolution in the various armies. of the Revolution in the various armies of the Republic, was made marshal-des-logis-chef on 16 March 1793, and, after the affair of the 24 of the same month, at Bousbruck, where he recaptured 2 French caissons which the enemy had seized, he was promoted to the rank of second lieutenant by order of the following 1st April. Becoming a lieutenant on 1st Ventôse an II, he was wounded by a gunshot to the left leg on the 19th of Floréal during the Tournay affair. Captain on 1st Thermidor An VII, he charged the Hungarian troops at Marengo with the greatest intrepidity troops at Marengo, routing them and taking many prisoners. prisoners. The First Consul awarded him a sabre of honour by decree of 14 Messidor An V and on 5 Pluviôse An XI, at the disbandment of the 20th cavalry regiment, he was promoted to captain in the 12th of the same army. Appointed adjutant-major in the 5th cuirassiers regiment on 25 ventôse year XII, he was classified in the 6th cohort of the Légion d'Honneur, was created an officer on 25 Prairial of the same year, and took command of a company of a company on 22 pluviôse year XII. He then took part in the campaigns of XIV, 1806, 1807 and 1809 in Austria, Prussia, Poland and Germany and Germany with the great army, and was promoted to squadron leader on 5 May 1807. Retired on 27 July 1811. NOTICE DU RÉCIPIENDAIRE EXTRAITE DE L'ARMORIAL DU PREMIER EMPIRE BY REVEREND TITARD. Tierced in pale; Or three sprockets in pale gules azure a high sabre argent, and argent three pomegranates azure palewise Azure; a bordure Gules encircling the shield and charged with the sign charged with the sign of the legionary knights. Jacques TITARD, knight of the empire by letters patent of 18 July 1810, donee (r. 2000) in Westphalia by imperial decree of of 19 March 1808; soldier (1785), second lieutenant (1 April 1793), lieutenant (19 February 1794), captain (1803), squadron leader (5 May 1807), retired in 1811, Officer of the Legion of Honour, born Auxey-le-Grand (Côte-d'Or), 8 May 1765.