Not to be confused with the general, then the marshal, Georges Mouton, Earl of Lobau .
| Barthelemy Regis Mouton-Duverne | |
|---|---|
| fr. Régis Barthélemy Mouton-Duvernet | |
 Front portrait from the Museum of the Army , Paris. | |
| Date of Birth | |
| Place of Birth | Le Puy-en-Velay |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | Lyon |
| Affiliation |  France |
| Type of army | Infantry |
| Years of service | 1787 - 1815 |
| Rank | Division General |
| Battles / wars | War of the First Coalition , War of the Second Coalition , Napoleonic Wars . |
| Awards and prizes | names carved under the Arc de Triomphe |
Barthelemy Regis Mouton-Duverne (May 3, 1770, Le Puy-en-Velay - July 27, 1816, Lyon) - French military leader, baron of the empire (1808), division general who died during the White Terror of 1815 .
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Biography
From a poor family. At the age of 17, he volunteered for the infantry regiment stationed in the West Indies . At the beginning of the revolution, having received leave, he returned to France and joined the revolutionary army. He participated in the siege of Toulon , where General Bonaparte was first seen, and was wounded in the battle of Arcole , which later became Bonaparte's hallmark. In 1807, after several years of fighting against the Austrians, Prussians and Russians, he became a colonel, and soon afterwards he was granted the rank of baron of the empire, and was sent to the Spanish theater of war, where he became a general. When, after the defeat in Russia, Napoleon needed to replenish the army, Mouton-Duverne was called up to Germany, led the Young Guard brigade, and soon became a division general for successful actions. At the end of 1813 he was captured during the surrender of the troops of Marshal Saint-Cyr . Already in the summer of 1814 he returned to France, and during the Hundred Days he crossed to the side of Napoleon, headed a strategically important military district with a center in the city of Lyon, whose rich inhabitants were opposed to the emperor. After the defeat at Waterloo , when the Bourbons returned to the throne a second time, he was captured by the royalists, sentenced to death and executed by them.
The name of General Mouton-Duverne is written under a triumphal arch in Paris among other names of heroes of Napoleonic France, and one of the Parisian streets (in the 14th arrondissement ) and the metro station are named after him. The decayed tombstone of General Mouton-Duverne in the cemetery fr: Cimetière de Loyasse in Lyon recently (in 2013) was reconstructed by the efforts of enthusiasts, a ceremony was held [2] .
Rewards
Legionnaire of the Legion of Honor (June 14, 1804)
Officer of the Legion of Honor (November 15, 1809)
Commander of the Legion of Honor (April 6, 1812)
Literature
- Shikanov V. N. Generals of Napoleon. Biographical Dictionary. - Reittar, 2004 .-- S. 148.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Sycomore / Assemblée nationale
- ↑ Inauguration de la tombe du général Mouton-Duvernet