Paul Barras (redirect from Paul François Nicolas, comte de Barras)
Paul François Jean Nicolas, Vicomte de Barras (French: [bara:s]; 30 June 1755 – 29 January 1829), commonly known as Paul Barras, was a French politician...
14 KB (1,024 words) - 11:15, 23 September 2024
François Joseph Lefebvre, Duke of Danzig (/ləˈfɛvrə/ lə-FEV-rə, French: [fʁɑ̃swa ʒozɛf ləfɛvʁ]; 25 October 1755 – 14 September 1820), was a French military...
11 KB (1,001 words) - 04:29, 9 November 2024
de Faudoas-Barbazan (18 May 1788 – 13 September 1844) was a French officer who participated in the French conquest of Algeria. The Marquis de Faudoas...
10 KB (759 words) - 06:04, 4 November 2024
François de Montmorency, 2nd Duke of Montmorency KG (17 July 1530 – 6 May 1579) was a French noble, governor, diplomat and soldier during the latter Italian...
49 KB (7,128 words) - 14:50, 28 August 2024
Jean François Joseph Rochechouart, Cardinal de Rochechouart (27 January 1708 – 20 March 1777) was a French Roman Catholic Cardinal. Born in Toulouse,...
4 KB (151 words) - 11:07, 4 January 2024
Charles Pierre François Augereau, duc de Castiglione (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁl pjɛʁ oʒʁo]; 21 October 1757 – 12 June 1816) was a French military commander...
18 KB (2,019 words) - 03:21, 14 November 2024
Jacques-François de Menou, Baron of Boussay, later Abdallah de Menou, (3 September 1750 – 13 August 1810) was a French statesman and general of Napoleon...
6 KB (581 words) - 19:49, 20 September 2024
François Marcellin Certain de Canrobert (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃swa maʁsəlɛ̃ sɛʁtɛ̃ də kɑ̃ʁɔbɛʁ]; born François Certain Canrobert; 27 June 1809 –...
23 KB (2,535 words) - 07:16, 24 October 2024
Jean Mairet (redirect from Jean de Mairet)
deaths of his aristocratic patrons, first the duc de Montmorency (1632) and then François de Faudoas, comte de Belin, that made Mairet give up writing for the...
4 KB (425 words) - 21:06, 30 April 2024
military governor of Paris in 1812, when pro-Republic General Claude François de Malet launched a coup while Napoleon was pursuing a disastrous campaign...
9 KB (1,051 words) - 14:09, 17 August 2024
Jean-Andoche Junot (category Names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe)
Pommereul, François-René-Jean de (1745-1823) Auteur du texte (1797). Campagne du général Buonaparte en Italie, pendant les années IVe et Ve de la République...
26 KB (2,760 words) - 18:40, 8 November 2024
defeat on the French. Marmont and his deputy commander Comte Jean-Pierre François Bonet were both struck by shrapnel very early in the battle. Marmont was...
13 KB (1,628 words) - 21:47, 22 October 2024
(1895) Histoire de l'Institut des écoles charitables du Saint-Enfant-Jésus, dit de Saint-Maur, suivie de la vie de la révérende mère de Faudoas, supérieure...
2 KB (237 words) - 08:26, 19 August 2023
Colonel. He returned to France in 1850. In the Crimean War, he served under François Certain Canrobert as general of brigade. For his brilliant conduct at the...
4 KB (382 words) - 23:17, 19 August 2024
Philippe François Marie Leclerc de Hauteclocque (22 November 1902 – 28 November 1947) was a Free-French general during World War II. He became Marshal...
64 KB (6,607 words) - 21:36, 1 November 2024
comte de Miolans, seigneur de Chévrières, baron de Saint-Chaumont, lieutenant général of the government of Lyonnais. Jean-François de Faudoas d'Averton...
135 KB (15,997 words) - 19:22, 4 October 2024
House of Rochechouart (redirect from Marie de Rochechouart de Mortemart)
Louis-Victor-Léon de Rochechouart, Histoire de la Maison de Rochechouart, 1859 Ambroise Ledru, La Maison de Faudoas, 1862 Robert de Lasteyrie, Etude sur...
44 KB (4,660 words) - 11:20, 4 November 2024
Marquis de Faudoas Maximilien Joseph Schauenburg Chasseurs d'Afrique Origins of the French Foreign Legion Revue de Paris, Tome 5. Brussels: Bureau de la Revue...
14 KB (1,239 words) - 13:02, 4 November 2024
1789 married Florence Constance de Rochechouart-Faudoas, daughter of Aimeric count of Faudoas. Marie-Antoinette de Quelen de La Vauguyon (1771–1847), on 13...
16 KB (2,180 words) - 17:38, 2 October 2024
battle of Escola with "a sombre kind of energy". He succeeded Jacques François Dugommier as army commander after that general's death at the Battle of...
6 KB (478 words) - 22:47, 9 September 2024
Jean-François-Auguste Moulin1 (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ fʁɑ̃swa oɡyst mulɛ̃]; 14 March 1752 – 12 March 1810) was a general of the French Revolution and...
7 KB (712 words) - 14:57, 3 September 2024
Hercule, Duke of Montbazon (redirect from Hercule de Rohan, duc de Montbazon)
children, of whom two, François and Anne, would have progeny. François founded the Soubise line of the Rohan's and married his cousin Anne de Rohan-Chabot (later...
6 KB (622 words) - 14:51, 28 August 2024
wife Charlotte Gouffier de Boisy, he was an enfant d'honneur in the household of the dauphin François, son of King François I. The young prince made...
7 KB (900 words) - 14:13, 25 February 2024
Gilbert, Count of Montpensier (redirect from Gilbert, Comte de Montpensier)
Charles III, Duke of Bourbon (17 February 1490 – 6 May 1527, in battle), François, Duke of Châtellerault (1492 – 13 September 1515, Battle of Marignano)...
5 KB (468 words) - 15:27, 16 September 2024
André Masséna (redirect from Andre, Duke de Rivoli, Prince D'essling Massena)
praised Masséna with the name l'enfant chéri de la victoire. The president of the Directory in Paris, Jean-François Rewbell, was also congratulatory: "The Executive...
30 KB (3,097 words) - 18:37, 5 November 2024
Henri Gouraud (category Collège Stanislas de Paris alumni)
He graduated in 1890 and joined the Troupes de marine. He expected to be posted overseas as the Troupes de marine served in the French colonial empire...
17 KB (1,650 words) - 22:14, 5 November 2024
Marie-Pierre Kœnig (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France))
Marie Joseph Pierre François Kœnig or Koenig (10 October 1898 – 2 September 1970) was a French general during World War II during which he commanded a...
22 KB (1,104 words) - 17:27, 22 October 2024
Louis Hercule Timoléon de Cossé, 8th Duke of Brissac (14 February 1734 – 9 September 1792), was a French military commander and peer of France. He was...
4 KB (526 words) - 20:37, 3 July 2024
of La Guerche: 1580 François d'O: 158.–1589 Charles-Emmanuel de Savoie: 1589–1590 Jean-Francois de Faudoas: 1590–1594 Charles II de Cossé, Marshal of the...
11 KB (1,065 words) - 22:28, 31 October 2024
Villequier: 1580 François d'O: 158.–1589 Charles-Emmanuel de Savoie: 1589–1590 Jean-Francois de Faudoas: 1590–1594 Charles II de Cossé: 1594 François d'O: 1594...
3 KB (293 words) - 00:12, 10 August 2024