[MANUSCRIT]. Maximilien-Sébastien FOY, Baron then Count of t - Lot 227

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[MANUSCRIT]. Maximilien-Sébastien FOY, Baron then Count of t - Lot 227
[MANUSCRIT]. Maximilien-Sébastien FOY, Baron then Count of the Empire (1775-1825) Diary for the years 1815-1817 (July 22, 1815 to September 30, 1817) In French, autograph manuscript on paper (clean-up) France, circa 1817 ? or shortly thereafter ? In-folio, 96 ff. non folioed, brown ink, autograph manuscript, clean-up with some passages crossed out (a form of family censorship?), text copied in a frame drawn in red ink. Bound in green-tinted paper, soft cardboard, inscribed in ink on the upper cover "from July 22, 1815 to September 30, 1817", part of a label on the upper cover, number no. 8 in red pencil on the upper cover, ties (small cords). Dimensions: 375 x 245 mm. A priori unpublished autograph diary, with a plethora of diplomatic, political, historical and family information. Maximilien Foy was born on February 3, 1775 in Ham, Somme. He entered the artillery corps at the École de La Fère as an aspirant in 1790. He became first captain of the Horse Artillery Regiment in 1793. He became involved in politics, siding with the Girondins, and in 1794 was arrested in Cambrai for supporting the liberal cause. In 1807, he married Elisabeth-Augustine Daniels, the daughter-in-law of General Baraguey d'Hilliers, and that same year left for Constantinople with Sébastiani. After the fall of the Empire, he was appointed to the 14th military division in May 1814. In 1815, he was appointed Inspector General of Infantry in the 12th Military Division, then held various posts in various military corps in 1815, before being made a Count of the Empire in the same year (he had been a Baron of the Empire by letters patent in 1810). Autographed, this Diary was written in the years 1815-1817: it is not written on a daily basis, but over very short periods, and the place of writing is always indicated: Ham, Amiens, Péronne, St-Quentin and other places, often Paris. It is quite clearly a clean-up exercise, and the erasures seem to correspond not to repentance but rather to forms of censorship, no doubt family censorship? The first date of this Diary is July 16, 1815, just after an important event. Maximilien Foy fought at Quatre-Bras, on June 16, 1815: he was wounded by a bullet that passed through his right shoulder during the attack on Hougoumont, on June 18, 1815. He was placed on non-active status after being discharged from the army (August 1, 1815), but suffered no further reprisals during the Second Restoration: "The Emperor has done nothing for me. We will rally to the King's constitutional government with fidelity and constancy..." (fol. 2).
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