General of division sash belt in gold and scarlet... Lot 180

General of division sash belt in gold and scarlet passementerie, with tassels with their three silver stars. In its box of the manufacturer E. Bidal Paris. B.E. Provenance: General Antoine Beaudemoulin (1857-1927), head of the military house of the Republic and secretary of the Presidency (1913-1914) . A student at Saint-Cyr (Crimea, Sebastopol class of 1854-1856), he served in the 1st Zouave Regiment and the Foreign Regiment. Second in command at the Saint Cyr school in 1885, he was then colonel of the 117th infantry regiment in 1888. He became a division general in 1894.