France Napoleonic LOH research

[Jaybo]

Hello,

Do any of you gentlemen know if there is any professional research resource in France that has the ability to document the history of a given Napoleonic Wars Legion d'honneur recepient from a specific regiment?

Jaybo

[Veteran]

Jaybo

Original archives of the Order were destroyed in 1871 when the Paris Commune uprising burned the Chancery of the Legion of honor.

Individual records of an Napoleonic Armies officer can be found at the Service Historique de l'Armée at Vincennes, near Paris. If he received the Legion of honor, this should appear on his records. You would have to know his name and given name.

If this recipient was not an officer, then you would have to know where he was born or where he lived at the time of his conscription. The local archives (Archives départementales) would hopefully have his records.

You can also go on the website Leonore maintained by the Chancery of the Legion of honor. A number of past awards are being gradually found and added. But it remains very incomplete.

I am not aware of professionnally organised research in this field, although Family History researchers do exist.

Hope this helps. Good luck !.

Veteran

Edited November 1, 2009 by Veteran

[Jaybo]

Jaybo

Original archives of the Order were destroyed in 1871 when the Paris Commune uprising burned the Chancery of the Legion of honor.

Individual records of an Napoleonic Armies officer can be found at the Service Historique de l'Armée at Vincennes, near Paris. If he received the Legion of honor, this should appear on his records. You would have to know his name and given name.

If this recipient was not an officer, then you would have to know where he was born or where he lived at the time of his conscription. The local archives (Archives départementales) would hopefully have his records.

You can also go on the website Leonore maintained by the Chancery of the Legion of honor. A number of past awards are being gradually found and added. But it remains very incomplete.

I am not aware of professionnally organised research in this field, although Family History researchers do exist.

Hope this helps. Good luck !.

Veteran

Merci beaucoup, veteran. This is a start.

Jay