Army of Italy / Signed letter by Aubernon, Chief Commissary-Ordonnateur / Year 8

  

Header of the Army of Italy / Letter from Chief Commissary-Administrator AUBERNON, at the Headquarters of Nice on 3 Ventôse, Year 8, addressed to the Citizens comprising the Administrative Commission of the Civil Hospitals of Grasse. Black linear mark: ARMY OF ITALY / 4th Don.

Philippe Aubernon was a member of the Masonic lodge of Antibes before the Revolution, municipal administrator of Antibes in 1791, and commissary of war for the Army of the Alps. In 1792, he became chief commissary-administrator of the armies.

He took part in the Genoa campaign with Masséna, then in the Italian campaign with Bonaparte until the Treaty of Campo Formio. Under the Empire, he was one of the 550 highest taxpayers in the Var. He served as chief commissary-administrator of the Corps of the Grande Armée, the Army of Dalmatia, the 11th Corps of the Grande Armée, the Army of Illyria, and as inspector for reviews of the First Military Division.

Decorated with the Order of Saint Louis and made a Commander of the Legion of Honour, Mr. Aubernon was placed on the retirement list by virtue of the ordinance of the.