Biographies : 187
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BiographyMONTGELAS, Count von
Maximilian Joseph Garnerin, count von Montgelas (Munich, 1759-1838) was a Bavarian politician of a noble Savoyard famille. His upbringing and sensibilities were heavily influenced by France, and at the end of his life, he spoke French as fluently as he did German. Thanks to the support of the Prince Elector Charles Theodore, he entered the office […]
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BiographyMOREAU, Jean-Victor‘Moreau ne connaissait pas le prix du temps; il passait toujours le lendemain d'une bataille dans une fâcheuse indécision', Napoleon on Saint Helena to Gourgaud, 1817.
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BiographyMORNY, Charles Auguste Louis Joseph, duc de (1811 – 1865)
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BiographyMOUTON Georges, comte and général
The 9th of Joseph Mouton’s 14 children Georges Mouton was born in Phalsbourg (in the Moselle département of France) on 21 June, 1770, and was the ninth of fourteen children born to Joseph Mouton and Catherine Charpentier. In 1790, his father obtained for him work as an accounts clerk at an iron merchants in Lunéville, […]
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BiographyMURAT, Joachim'Le roi de Naples était vraiment sublime au feu, le meilleur officier de cavalerie du monde. Au combat c'était "un césar", mais hors de là, "presque une femme"... Murat avait un très grand courage et fort peu d'esprit. La trop grande différence entre ces deux…
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BiographyNansouty, Etienne-Marie-Antoine Champion
Born in 1768, Etienne-Marie-Antoine Champion Nansouty was a brilliant horseman and like Napoleon, attended military school in Brienne and Paris. He served in the Ancien Régime army but did not leave France following the Revolution and went on to serve in the Armée du Rhin, becoming a général de brigade in August 1799. Serving under […]
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BiographyNAPOLEON II
Napoleon François Charles Joseph (1811-1832), Roi de Rome, French emperor, Prince de Parme, Duc de Reichstadt. On 20 March, 1811, a salvo of one hundred cannon shots broke the news to the city of Paris: the long-awaited son of the emperor had been born at the Tuileries Palace. Named the Prince Imperial, as dictated by […]
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BiographyNELSON, Horatio
Nelson was born on 29 September, 1758, in Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, England, the sixth of eleven children. His father, Edmund Nelson, was parish priest and his mother, Catherine Nelson, was a grandniece of Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Oxford. His mother died when Nelson was nine. Nelson joined the Royal Navy aged 12 on January […]
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BiographyNEY, Michel
Distiguished by his red hair, fiery temper and combat bravery, Ney was fellow Gascon Murat's only serious rival as the most dashing of Napoleon's marshals. He joined the royal French hussars in 1787, and was an NCO in Flanders during the opening actions against the First Coalition in 1792. Commissioned in October of that year, […]
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BiographyNIEL, Adolphe
Adolphe Niel was born on 4 October, 1802 in Muret, in the Haute-Garonne. A bourgeois family for generations, the Niels were originally from Goyrans, in the Haute-Garonne, and not, as some have suggested, Ireland. Niel is a traditional 'Midi' name. Niel graduated from the Ecole polytechnique in 1823 with the rank of sous-lieutenant and enrolled in […]