DOCUMENT MACONNIQUE CONCERNING MAXIMILIEN LAMARQUE... Lot 17

DOCUMENT MACONNIQUE CONCERNING MAXIMILIEN LAMARQUE GENERAL OF BRIGADE KIND OF INTERNAL PASSPORT WHICH ALLOWS THE HOLDER TO TRAVEL AND TO MEET OTHER LODGES. DOCUMENT DATED 20 FRIMAIRE YEAR TWELVEIEME OF THE REPUBLIC, OR OF THE YEAR 5803 MACONNIQUE, THAT IS ( 12 Décembre 1803). PRINTED ON PARCHMENT WITH DECORATIVE FRIEZE AND MACONIC SYMBOL WITH BLUE CLOTH BAND AND RED SEAL. FORMAT 40x32. General Lamarque was born in Saint-Sever in the Landes in 1770 and died in Paris in 1832. He made a career in the revolutionary armies and of the empire, in particular in the wars of Vendée and Spain. He became a brigadier general, then a baron of the empire and received the grand cross of the legion of honour. His funeral on 5 June 1832 was the scene of a strong republican uprising which was immortalized by Victor Hugo in Les Miserables. This document tells us that he was a Freemason belonging to the lodge La Zélée à l'Or. de Bayonne.