DIGNITARY SWORD OF THE SECOND EMPIRE ATTRIBUTED TO HENRI SIM - Lot 118

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DIGNITARY SWORD OF THE SECOND EMPIRE ATTRIBUTED TO HENRI SIM - Lot 118
DIGNITARY SWORD OF THE SECOND EMPIRE ATTRIBUTED TO HENRI SIMÉON. Gilt bronze and mother-of-pearl mounting. Olive pommel with floral decoration surrounded by four friezes. Joint arc in beam maintained by a frieze of olive branches winding around, quillon slightly curved. Keyboard in the form of a shield with an imperial eagle on a thunderbolt and amatite background. Mother-of-pearl plates decorated with the line. White blade with triangular section by Couleau in Klingenthal. Leather scabbard (accidents) with two gilded brass fittings. Gusseted cap with rocaille decoration, chiseled floral decoration, spherical stinger. Total length 92 cm. France, Second Empire period. It is accompanied by a chased brass plate marked " Henri Cte Siméon Senator of the Empire 1803-1874 ". HENRI SIMÉON 1803-1874 Son of Joseph Balthazar Siméon Pair de France. It is to this personality that we owe, against the opinion of King Louis-Philippe, the introduction of cigarettes in France when he took his functions at the general direction of the tobaccos in 1842. Deputy of the Vosges in 1843 and President of the general council of the Vosges in 1844. He will approve the coup d'état of 1851, he will become senator in 1852. He will take the direction of the works of embellishment of Paris in 1853, will carry out moreover the plans which will be used as a basis for the work of Haussmann. He also took part in the foundation of the water company and became president of the supervisory board of the central railway fund.
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