Biographies : 16
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BiographyLA MARMORA, Alfonso Ferrero, Marchese del, Italian General and Politicianb. Turin 17 November, 1804 - d. Florence 5 January, 1878
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BiographyLAFITTE, Louis
Louis Lafitte was born in Paris on 15 November, 1770. He was initially pupil to the engraver Gilles Antoine Demarteau (1750-1802), later going on to study under the painter Jean-Baptiste Regnault (1754-1829), and in 1791 he won the Premier Prix de Rome for his composition on the subject Regulus returning to Carthage. His time in […]
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BiographyLANGERON, Count Louis Alexandre Andrault de
Count Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron was one of many French émigrés in the Russian service. He was born in Paris on 24 January 1763, into a French noble family. His first experience of battle was in the American War of Independence. He then served at Caracas and Saint Domingo in 1782 – 1783, before […]
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BiographyLANNES, Jean‘L'un des militaires les plus distingués qu'a eus la France! Chez Lannes, le courage l'emportait d'abord sur l'esprit, mais l'esprit montait chaque jour pour se mettre en équilibre. Je l'avais pris pygmée, je l'ai perdu géant... Un des hommes au monde sur lesquels je pouvais…
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BiographyLasalle, Charles
Charles Lasalle was born in Metz on 10 May, 1775. In 1791, he became sous-lieutenant in the 24e de cavalerie but resigned in 1792 and came to Paris. There, he signed up as a volunteer in the Section des Piques, a “district” in Paris during the Revolution (each district was made up of a civil […]
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BiographyLaw de Lauriston, Jacques-Alexandre
Jacques-Alexandre Law de Lauriston was born in Pondichery (India) on 1 February, 1768. He was the grandnephew of the infamous Scotsman John Law, who was the short-lived Contrôleur Général des Finances under Philippe d'Orléans. Jacques-Alexandre's father was Jacques-François, a French General sometime Governor General of a French trading post in India and author of État politique […]
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BiographyLECLERC, Victor-Emmanuel
Fact file Born in Pontoise, 17 March 1772. Volunteer in the 2e bataillon de Seine-et-Oise, lieutenant 19 Oct., 1791 Became one of the Adjudants généraux for the Armée d’Italie in 1793 Became Chief of Staff for the Division de l’Est (La Poype) in the army sent against Toulon, 1793 Adjudant général, Chef de bataillon, on […]
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BiographyLECOURBE, Claude-Jacques'C'est un sournois, un méchant homme, dangereux, et qui est lié à nos ennemis', Napoleon, 1806 (reported in Lecestre, Lettres inédites) 'Très brave, il eut été un excellent maréchal de France; il avait reçu de la nature toutes les qualités nécessaire pour être un excellent…
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BiographyLEFEVRE, Robert; Jacques François Faust, sometimes called Robert Lefèvre
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BiographyLESSEPS, Ferdinand de
Creator of the Suez Canal. Born in Versailles, into a family raised to the nobility in 1777, son of Mathieu de Lesseps, French Consul, and nephew of Barthélemy de Lesseps, one of the members of the La Pérouse expedition and subsequently French Consul General in St Petersburg during the First Empire. Ferdinand, who was schooled […]