[FREEMASONRY] - Lot 26

[FREEMASONRY] Collection of Masonic documents, circa 1820, concerning Count Antoine Simon Durrieu, general and politician (1775–1862): Supreme Council letters, summonses, selection of decorations (Brun catalog), 30th-degree initiation, summonses, St. John’s Day celebration, etc. (14). Baron Antoine Simon Durrieu, captain in 1795, campaigns in Spain, Italy, Egypt with Bonaparte; battles of Marengo and Wagram; Napoleon appointed him a Knight of the Empire in 1811; he distinguished himself at the Battle of the Moskva; he was wounded at Waterloo in 1815. Napoleon said of him, “If all those charged with defending French soil had been like Durrieu, the soil would never have suffered the indignity of being trampled by foreigners.” He subsequently played a role in the Restoration, serving as a deputy for the Landes department. He received numerous decorations, including the Order of St. Louis and the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor, among others; he was named a baron in 1830 and a Peer of France by Louis-Philippe in 1845.