Medal of Honor for the Siege of Lyon
The decoration for the siege of Lyon was granted in 1815 by the French King Louis XVIII. donated. The participants in the siege of Lyon during the reign of terror of the revolution were to be honored. The award, which was only awarded 22 years later, was intended for the year 1793 and made a distinction between the volunteers and royal volunteers. The latter were honored with the honorary badge of volunteers in 1814 and 1815 . They also received another form of award.
Appearance
The badge of honor is an eight-pointed cross in brown enamel , set in silver and decorated with gold balls at the tips. There is a silver lily in each of the cross corners. The round center plate in gold shows the year 1793 . A blue border of the medallion with gold rim bears the inscription Siege de Lyon .
A silver lily is attached to the suspension ring. The award was worn on a ribbon soaked in white with a red border.
literature
- Gustav Adolph Ackermann: Order book of all orders and decorations that have flourished and expired in Europe , Rudolph and Dieterici, Annaberg 1855, p. 213, 214
- Aristide Michel Perrot: Historical collection of all still existing knight orders of the different nations , Baumgärtnersche Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1821, p. 11
- H. Schulze: Chronicle of all known knight orders and decorations, which are awarded by sovereigns and governments, together with images of the decorations , Volume 1, Moeser and Kühn, Berlin 1853, p. 340
- Aristide Michel Perrot, historical collection of all still existing knight orders of the different nations, Baumgärtnersche Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1821, p. 4, fig. 10
Individual proof
- ↑ Ferdinand von Biedenfeld, History and Constitution of all spiritual and secular, extinct and flourishing knight orders ..., Volume 1, Verlag Bernhard Friedrich Voigt, Weimar 1841, pp. 219, 220