2093348

Sitzendorff Mounted Figure of General Pajol #2093348

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Sitzendorff Mounted Figure of General  Pajol #2093348
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Incredible highly collectible model of a Napoleonic general.</em></td>
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We offer a gorgeously decorated mounted figure of the Napoleonic General and Count Pajol. He sits astride his mount and he is dressed in a blue jacket with black and gold fore and aft on his head.
We believe that this figure was made in the early 1950s. Absolutely superb work by Sitzendorf.
In excellent condition. Standing some 11 inches high the figure measures a little longer than 8 incches.

Born in Besançon, as the son of a lawyer, he was intended to follow his father's profession, but the events of 1789 turned his mind in another direction. Joining the battalion of Besançon, he took part in the political events of that year, and in 1791 went to the French Revolutionary Army of the Upper Rhine with a volunteer battalion.

He took part in the campaign of 1792 and was one of the stormers at Hochheim (1793). From the Count of Custine's staff he was transferred to that of Jean Baptiste Kléber, with whom he took part in the Sambre and Rhine Campaigns (1794-96). After serving with Louis Lazare Hoche and André Masséna in Germany and Switzerland (1797-99), Pajol took a cavalry command under Jean Victor Marie Moreau for the campaign on the upper Rhine.


First Empire
In the short years of peace Pajol, now colonel, was successively envoy to the Batavian Republic, and delegate at Napoleon I's coronation (the start of the First French Empire). In 1805, the emperor employed him with the light cavalry. He distinguished himself at the battle of Austerlitz, and, after serving for a short ...
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<tr><td>Condition:V.Good-Excellent</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:c.1950</td></tr>
<tr><td>Country:Germany</td></tr>
<tr><td>Maker:Sitzendorff</td></tr>
<tr><td>Height:11</td></tr>
<tr><td>Depth:3.6</td></tr>
<tr><td>Width:8.2</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:Sitzendorff Mounted Figure of General Pajol</td></tr>

<tr><td>Materials:Porcelain</td></tr>

<tr><td>Location:Ottawa, Canada</td></tr>
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