ARMAND-JACQUES LEROY DE SAINT-ARNAUD (1798-1854) Autograph document from 1870. Receipt to be presented to the Reims Town Hall to recover the Bâton du Maréchal de Saint Arnaud.

1 p. double leaflet. In French. Red wax stamp. 34,2 x 20,7 cm ‘To preserve a Marshal's baton, given by the Emperor Napoleon to Saint Arnaud, Marshal of France, to the Puy-Ségur family, it has been taken and deposited at the town hall of Rheims [Reims], where it can be collected, if this receipt is presented. By order of His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin...’. Armand-Jacques Leroy de Saint-Arnaud French soldier and Marshal of France. He served as French Minister of War until the Crimean War when he became Commander-in-chief of the army of the East. Frédéric-François II of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1823-1883) Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin from 1842 to 1883.