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COATS OF ARMS DESCRIPTION

CUNY - CURÉE - CURIAL - CURNIER DE PILVERIN - CURTO - CUSSY - CUSTINE - CUVIER

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CUNY

Jean-Baptiste CUNY (1751-????), directing artillery colonel, knight of the Empire by letters patent of 15 July 1810. Regulation of coats of arms:

Gules, a chevron Or, accompanied of three bombshells of the same, to the orle Argent; bordure Gules of the third of the shield, mark of the knights set in the 2nd point in chief; for liveries: colours of the shield.

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BB/29/972 page 66. Title of knight granted to Jean, to Baptiste Cuny, following the decree of the 5 nivose year XIV appointing it Officer of the Legion of Honour. Rambouillet (15 July 1810).
BB/29/1073 page 65. Mr. the Cuny knight.

QUARRY

Jean-François QUARRY (1756-????), senator, count of Bédissière by letters patent of 15 June 1808. Regulation of coats of arms:

Argent, per pale Vert; the Argent charged of a volume or roller Sable set horizontally, this roller develops and one sees there writes in letters Or: in Jove Principium; Vert charged of an oak Or; quarter count-senators. Liveries: blue, white, American, and green gray in the bordures only.

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BB/29/974 page 134. Title of count granted to Jean, to François Curée. Bayonne (15 June 1808).
BB/29/1061 page 41. Mr. the count Quarry, senator.

CURIAL

Philibert-Jean-Baptist-François-Joseph CURIAL (1774-????), brigadier general, colonel of the chasseurs on foot of the imperial guard, baron of the Empire by letters patent of May 1808. Regulation of coats of arms:

Or, 2 spears in saltire Argent in middle fess point, charged of a shield Sable fimbriated Argent bearing for enblême the Or lightning and Argent accompanied of four mullets Argent; to the dexter canton head of borated Proper blowing Argent, to the sinistral quarter of baron come out of the armed one; in base crocodile Proper facing the sinister, supported of a river Azure, and chained to the shield by a chain Sable. Liveries: blue, red, Yellow, green, in the stripes only.

Major general, commanding the chasseurs on foot imperial guard, count of the Empire by letters patent of 22 March 1814. Regulation of coats of arms:

Or to the shield Sable to the orle Argent, set in damages, charged of the lightning Or and Argent, traversed of two spears, in saltire, also Argent, accompanied of four mullets of the same, set in orle, on the dexter is set of a head of Borated Proper, blowing Argent, and supported of a river Azure towered of a crocodile Proper, facing the sinister and chained to the shield by a chain Sable; quarter military counts, debruising to the ninth of the shield; for liveries colours of the shield the green one in bordure only.

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BB/29/966 page 29. Title of baron, granted by decree of 19 March 1808, in Philibert, Jean-Baptiste, Francois, Joseph Curial. Bayonne (May 1808).
BB/29/969 page 233. Title of count, granted by decree of 29 November 1813, in Philibert, Jean, Baptiste, Francois, Joseph Curial. Tileries (22 March 1814).
BB/29/1062 page 160. Mr. the Curial baron.
BB/29/1067 page 152. Mr. the Curial count.

CURNIER OF PILVERIN

François-Theodore CURNIER OF PILVERIN (1765-????), major to the 116e of line, knight of the Empire by letters patent of 6 October 1810. Regulation of coats of arms:

Per pale Or and Azure: Or to the eradicated tree Vert, accompanied of two towers embattled of three pieces, open, windows and masoned Sable, in dexter a one in sinister: Azure, 2 mullets in fess Or, surmounted of a crescent Argent and surmounted of an issuing from dexter flank sphinx of the same: terrace in base of the third of the shield Gules charged of the mark of knights of the Legion of Honour and for liveries: colours of the shield, the green one in bordure only.

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BB/29/972 page 207. Title of knight granted to Francois, Théodore Curnier of Pilvert, following the decree of the 25 meadow year XII naming it members Legion of honour. Fontainebleau (6 October 1810).
BB/29/1074 page 126. Mr. the Curnier knight of Pilvert.

CURTO

Jean-Baptist-Theodore CURTO (1770-????), colonel of the 8th light cavalrymen, baron of the Empire by letters patent of 9 September 1810. Regulation of coats of arms:

Azure to the river in fess Argent, surmounted of a passant Or and supported crocodile of a hunting horn of the same: quarter military barons; for liveries: colours of the shield.

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BB/29/967 page 459. Title of baron, granted by decree of 15 August 1809, in Jean, Baptiste, Théodore Curto. Saint-Cloud (9 September 1810).
BB/29/1065 page 118. Mr. the Curto baron.

CUSSY

Marie-Léonor-Louis-Ambroise of CUSSY (1766-????), prefect of the palate, chief of legion of the national guard of the Maunch, baron of the Empire. Regulation of coats of arms:

Azure, a fess Argent, accompanied in chief of two roses, and in base of a spur rowel, the whole also Argent; quarter Barons Officers of Our house, debruising to the ninth of the shield; for liveries: blue, white, red.

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BB/29/968 page 489. Title of baron, granted by decree of 1 June 1811, in Marie, Léonor, Louis, Ambroise de Cussy. Koenigsberg (15 June 1812).
BB/29/1066 page 231. Mr. the baron of Cussy, prefect of the palate of His Majesty.

CUSTINE

Robert-Juvénal de Custine, baron of the Empire with majorat by letters patent of 11 June 1810. Regulation of coats of arms:



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BB/29/1065 page 55. Mr. de Custine.

VAT

Georges-Léopold-Nicolas-Christian-Frederic VAT (1769-????), advisor of the university, perpetual secretary of the Institute, reader, professor of natural history to the college of France, professor of comparative anatomy and administrator of the museum of natural history, knight of the Empire by letters patent of 23 October 1811. Regulation of coats of arms:

Azure, a chevron Or accompanied of three heads of pigeon erased Argent two in chief, one in base; , a fess third of the shield Gules, mark of knights of the Legion of Honour debruising over all; for liveries: colours of the shield.

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BB/29/968 page 387. Title of knight, granted by decree of 30 June 1811, in Georges, Léopold, Nicolas, Christian, Frédéric Cuvier. Amsterdam (23 October 1811).
BB/29/1075 page 101. Mr. Cuvier, members of the Institute.