LOUIS XVIII

in French with translation, for Paul Esprit Charles Boullongne, Comte de Nogent, for the services he has rendered us and the State, to rank from the 16th May 1816, signed with his stamp by the King as Sovereign Head of the Order, signed also by the Grand Chancellor Jacques Alexandre Macdonald, 1765-1840, Duke of Taranto, and by the Secretary-General Comte Victor d'Orchy, finely engraved with manuscript additions, with the Royal Arms at the head and the motto 'Honour and Country', and a border incorporating the badge of the order (lilies of France, crowned), embossed paper seal of the Chancery of the Order, vellum, 14½ x 17½, Tuileries, 30th October