Jean Budet ( fr. Jean Boudet ; 1769-1809) - French military leader, divisional general (1796), count (1808), participant of the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. The name of the general is stamped on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris .
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| Date of Birth | February 9, 1769 | |||||
| Place of Birth | Bordeaux , Gascony province (now the Gironde department ), Kingdom of France | |||||
| Date of death | September 14, 1809 (40 years) | |||||
| Place of death | Budvais , Austrian Empire (now Czech ) | |||||
| Affiliation |  France | |||||
| Type of army | Infantry | |||||
| Years of service | 1785 - 1809 | |||||
| Rank | Divisional general | |||||
| Commanded | Infantry Division (1803–06) | |||||
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Biography
Jean Boudé was born on February 9, 1769 in the south-west of France in the city of Bordeaux [1] and while still in his youth he enlisted in the French army .
After the siege of Toulon (September 18 - December 18, 1793), Bude was sent to the Antilles , where he distinguished himself in several battles with the English army [1] .
In 1796, for the listed merits and impeccable service, Bodo received the rank of divisional general [1] .
In 1800, he commanded the vanguard of the corps of General Louis Deze , whose arrival at the battle of Marengo decided the outcome of this final battle of Napoleon I ’s Second Italian campaign against the Austrian forces in Northern Italy [1] .
In 1802, General Buda went on an expedition to San Domingo with the aim of suppressing the slave uprising [1] . During this expedition, the commander of the expeditionary corps and Captain-General San Domingo Charles Leclerc , the husband of Napoleon Bonaparte’s sister, Pauline, famous for his extravagant antics, died of fever. French troops captured Port-au-Prince (Bude commanded the right flank), but ultimately, despite the efforts of the French, the first republic under the control of former slaves, Haiti, appeared on the world map.
Due to health problems, on September 26, 1802 he returned to France. From October 26, 1803 to July 16, 1806, he commanded an infantry division that was first camped in Utrecht under General Marmont , then was part of the 2nd Army Corps of the Great Army , the Italian Army, and finally the Army of Dalmatia.
In 1807 he arrived at the location of the Great Army, and from July 24 he commanded the 1st Infantry Division in the corps of Marshal Brun , distinguished himself in the capture of Stralsund and Kohlberg.
In 1809, after the first crossing of the Danube, Bouda occupied the Essling with his division, where he withheld, despite the best efforts of the Austrians (see Aspern-Essling battle ) [2] . In a sign of gratitude for this, Napoleon Bonaparte granted him the estate and the title of count. [1] However, in the battle of Wagram, Jean lost all of his divisional artillery, for which he was sharply criticized by the Emperor .
Feeling badly about what happened, Bodo committed suicide on September 14, 1809 in the town of Budwejs (now Moravské Budejovice ).
The name of General Bouda was included in the list of 660 military leaders who served France during the Revolution and First Empire , and whose names are carved under the arches of the Paris Arc de Triomphe on Charles de Gaulle Square (Stars) .
Military ranks
- Lieutenant (August 5, 1792);
- Captain (September 6, 1792);
- Lieutenant colonel (December 13, 1792);
- Colonel (June 18, 1794);
- Brigadier General (December 14, 1795, approved January 4, 1800);
- Divisional General (October 20, 1796, approved April 2, 1804).
Titles
- Count Budet and the Empire ( Fr. comte Boudet et de l'Empire ; decree of March 19, 1808, patent confirmed on September 10, 1808) [3] .
Awards
Legionnaire of the Legion of Honor (December 11, 1803)
Commander of the Legion of Honor (June 14, 1804)
Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor (June 2, 1809)
Commander of the Order of the Iron Crown (1809)
Grand Cross of the Danish Order of Danebrog
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 Bude, Jean // Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron : in 86 tons (82 tons and 4 extra). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- ↑ Aspern // Aral Flotilla - Athos battle. - SPb. ; [ M. ]: Type. t-va I. D. Sytin , 1911. - p. 180-182. - ( Military Encyclopedia : [in 18 t.] / Under the editorship of V. F. Novitsky [and others ]; 1911–1915, vol. 3).
- ↑ Imperial Nobility on B