Order you pavilion
The Ordre du Pavillon -called small order of knights was under the reign of Philip II. Of Orléans ( Le Regent ) in 1717 by the eight-year King of France Louis XV founded and became extinct a few years later.
The diplomat and memoir writer Philippe de Courcillon, Marquis de Dangeau , who was present at court , noted - and the Duc de Saint-Simon incorporated this into his own memoirs - that the underage king enjoyed it, courtiers of the same age and also some young domestics with him Award medals. At the same time awarded Louis XV. the young medal winners the privilege of entering the tent (French pavilion ), which he set up on the palace terrace when he was outside, without being asked.
The Order of Merit awarded on this occasion was commissioned by François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy , Marshal of France and Governor of the young king, from the royal treasurer Levèvre (Le Fèvre). He created enamelled gold crosses on a blue and white ribbon, which were decorated on one side with a tent and on the other with a motif that stood for a game of skill invented by Louis XIV in 1689 called cadran de l'anneau tournant . Villeroy's initiative displeased the first chamberlain, who claimed the right to commission the decorations and to hand them over to the king. This question of etiquette sparked an argument between the two men, which was eventually mediated by the regent.
As a French order, the Ordre du Pavillon is to be classified as a royal gesture towards the playmates of the child king. In literature he is listed as an order of knights.
The Order of the Pavilion, also known as the Order of the Terrace , expired in 1723 and a subsequent new foundation in the same year under the name of the Order of the Flag had the same concern. The symbol of the order was a red enamelled cross that was accompanied on one side by a flag and on the other by the child's favorite game "anneau tournant".
Medal bearer
The date of the award is in front.
- 1723: Louis de Bourbon-Condé, comte de Clermont (1709–1771)
literature
- Philippe de Courcillon de Dangeau: Journal du Marquis de Dangeau , 17th vol., Firmin Didot Frères, Fils et Cie, 1859, Paris
- The knighthood and the Templars, Johanniter and Marians; or Teutonic Knights, Karl Julius Weber, published Hallberger'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart, 1835/1849