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A French Cavalry Officer's Sword Presented To His Royal Highness The Duke De Chartres By The Officers Of The Chartres Hussars image 1
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A French Cavalry Officer's Sword Presented To His Royal Highness The Duke De Chartres By The Officers Of The Chartres Hussars
Third Quarter Of The 19th Century

Antique Arms and Armour
17 May 2017, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

£600 - £800

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A French Cavalry Officer's Sword Presented To His Royal Highness The Duke De Chartres By The Officers Of The Chartres Hussars
Third Quarter Of The 19th Century

With curved fullered blade double-edged towards the clipped-back point and finely etched over most of its length on each side with neoclassical figures, martial trophies and foliage, one trophy at the forte inscribed 'Acier Fondu', the forte inlaid in gold with the presentation inscription 'A Leur Colonel Son Altesse Royale Le Duc De Chartres' on one side, and 'Les Officers Des Houzards De Chartres' on the other, brass hilt of regulation pattern (old soldered repairs) with oval guard cast with a border of laurel involving a vacant shield on the inside, side-guard of three foliate bars swept-up to join the knuckle-guard, pommel-cap with border en suite with the guard, and wire-bound leather-covered grip (leather incomplete) over cord bindings
81.2 cm. blade

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Prince Robert Philippe Louis Eugene Ferdinand of Orleans, Duke of Chartres (1840-1910) was a French army officer and grandchild of Louis-Philippe, duc d'Orléans and King of the French from 1830 to 1848, who served as a Union army officer in the American Civil War. Born in Paris, he left France for Turin after the fall of the monarchy in 1848, where he received military training and was commissioned with the 21st Dragoons, a Piedmontese regiment. He fought at the Battle of Palestro, for which he was decorated by King Victor Emmanuel II. On the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861 he travelled with his brother, Prince Philippe, and uncle, Prince François d'Orléans, to the United States to offer support to President Abraham Lincoln. The three men served under General George B. McClellan in the Army of the Potomac. The brothers resigned their commissions in 1862 and in 1863 Prince Robert returned to England and married his first cousin Françoise d'Orléans-Joinville, on 11 June 1863, in Kingston upon Thames.

He was in Brussels, with his uncles Prince François and Prince Henri, Duke of Aumale, in 1870 on the declaration of the Franco-Prussian War and immediately requested the government of Napoleon III for authorisation to fight in the conflict. The Minister of War opposed his participation in the war and he was therefore unable to enrol in the French army until after the fall of the Empire. He then fought in the war under the pseudonym Robert Le Fort and was made head of a squadron in the Armée de la Loire, fighting with such distinction he was made a Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur once the war was over. The provisional government kept him at that rank and in 1871 sent him to Algeria to put down a native revolt.

In 1881 the Republican regime, hostile to members of the Orleans and Napoléon former French royal families, removed him from his post as Colonel of the 19th Mounted Chasseur Regiment and he was exiled from France.

He was eventually allowed to return to France and died in Saint-Firmin in 1910

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