24 miniature figures of French soldiers, wars of liberation / battle of nations
modern fully round figures, cast white metal, decorated in many colors, each titled under the base: artilleryman, guard grenadier, Neapolitan guardsman, eagle bearer, sutler, cadet, artilleryman, guardsman on foot, hunter trumpeter, line infantryman, grenadier of the Old Guard, carbine, hussar, Sergeant, Curassier, Sapeur, Cap. Hussar, General Desaix, Marshal Berthier, Italian Grenadier. Guard, Guard Cavalryman, Marine Fusilier, Foot Artilleryman, height up to 8 cm, with the manufacturer's signet: delPrado Collection
By "General Desaix" the French mean Maurice of Saxony, born in 1696 in Goslar as a son of August the Strong and Aurora von Königsmarck, who was also provost of Quedlinburg. Moritz is highly revered by the French and is simply transferred here as a folk hero to the time of the wars of liberation. After his death, the French king decided that Maurice should not be buried in Catholic French soil, but in Protestant soil in accordance with his faith. Strasbourg was designated as the easternmost city with Protestant believers as the final resting place. There the king had one of the most monumental tombs in European art history built for his general Maurice by the sculptor Pigalle in the Protestant St. Thomas Church. Another monument to "Genenral Desaix" can be found in Strasbourg in front of the Old Stock Exchange.
By "General Desaix" the French mean Maurice of Saxony, born in 1696 in Goslar as a son of August the Strong and Aurora von Königsmarck, who was also provost of Quedlinburg. Moritz is highly revered by the French and is simply transferred here as a folk hero to the time of the wars of liberation. After his death, the French king decided that Maurice should not be buried in Catholic French soil, but in Protestant soil in accordance with his faith. Strasbourg was designated as the easternmost city with Protestant believers as the final resting place. There the king had one of the most monumental tombs in European art history built for his general Maurice by the sculptor Pigalle in the Protestant St. Thomas Church. Another monument to "Genenral Desaix" can be found in Strasbourg in front of the Old Stock Exchange.
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