Ile de France - Villes et Noblesse Louis-Basile de Bernage, prévôt de Paris

Reverse

Arms of Paris

Script: Latin

Lettering: VILLE DE PARIS

Edge

Milled

Comment

Louis-Basile de Bernage was successively in charge of the intendances of Montauban, then Montpellier and Toulouse. In 1734, he was appointed to the Conseil d'Etat. By provision of December 3, 1724, he was appointed secretary-greffier of the Order of Saint Louis, a position he relinquished in 1733. Secretary-greffiers had the privilege of wearing the insignia of the Grand Cross.