Raoul de Gaucourt, also known as the Sieur de Gaucort or Sire de Gaucourt (c. 1370–1461), was a French soldier and statesman. He fought at the Battle...

Charles Pierre François Augereau, duc de Castiglione (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁl pjɛʁ oʒʁo]; 21 October 1757 – 12 June 1816) was a French military commander...

leading King Charles X to accuse Marmont of betraying the Bourbons as he had betrayed the Bonapartes. Marmont departed France with Charles's entourage and...

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...

de Montmorency (1534-1614), Charles de Montmorency-Damville (1537-1612), Gabriel de Montmorency (1541-1562) and Guillaume de Montmorency-Thoré (1547-1593)...

Normanville: 1465–1467 Charles I d'Amboise, Count of Brienne: 1467–1470 Charles de Gaucourt, Viscount of Aix: 14..–1472 Antoine de Chabannes, Count of Dammartin:...

Masséna was granted an important command in Switzerland, replacing General Charles Edward Jennings. As Russian reinforcements marched to support the Austrian...

Gabrielle de La Tour d'Auvergne, Count of Montpensier and Dauphin d'Auvergne. He was appointed to the Order of Saint Michael by King Charles VIII of France...

Catherine-Dominique de Pérignon, 1st Marquis de Pérignon (French pronunciation: [katʁin dɔminik də peʁiɲɔ̃], 31 May 1754 in Grenade – 25 December 1818)...

Revolution. Junot embraced the revolutionary cause, and was present at the Fête de la Fédération in Paris on 14 July 1790. On 9 July 1791, Junot was one of the...

to général de brigade in 1836, he was made commandant of the academy. Sent to Algeria in 1841, by 1843 he had been promoted to général de division and...

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...

wrote several memoirs of the Franco-Prussian War: Operations de l'armée pendant le siege de Paris (1872); L'Armistice et la commune (1872); and L'Armée...

Rodrigo de Villandrando, Rais crossed the Marne "upstream, before La Ferté-sous-Jouarre", while other French troops led by Raoul de Gaucourt and the "Bastard...

Charles-Emmanuel de Savoie, prince de Genevois and duc de Nemours (c. 1567–13 August 1595) was a French prince étranger, governor, military commander...

to Britain to fight with the Free French under General Charles de Gaulle, adopting the nom de guerre of Leclerc so that his wife and children would not...

Jacques de Villiers: 1461 Charles d'Artois: 1465 Charles de Melun: 1465–1467 Charles I d'Amboise: 1467–1470 Charles de Gaucourt: 14..–1472 Antoine de Chabannes:...

Charles II d'Amboise, Seigneur de Chaumont (1473 – 11 March 1511) was a French nobleman, who acted as French governor of Milan (1503–1511) during the...

Madame de Staël wrote that Hulin told her: "I want to take revenge for your father on these bastards who want to butcher us." Louis Abel Beffroy de Reigny...

days later, Napoleon awarded him the victory title "Duke of Danzig" (Duc de Dantzig). In 1808, Lefebvre took part in Napoleon's campaign in the Peninsular...

Billotte's son Pierre Billotte also graduated from École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr in 1926; joined the Free French movement and had a distinguished...

politician. He served as President of the Government of National Defense—France's de facto head of state—from 4 September 1870 until his resignation on 22 January...

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...

pacification, l’organisation et la colonisation de Madagascar, 1896-1899, Paris, Charles-Lavauzelle, 1900 Madagascar de 1896 à 1905, Tananarive : Impr. officielle...

Charles de Cossé, Count of Brissac (1505 (O.S.)/06 – 1563), was a French courtier and soldier, named beau Brissac at court and remembered as the Maréchal...

France. There, he married (in June 1799) Mlle de Montholon, who was the daughter of Charles-Louis Huguet de Sémonville, and the future wife of Marshal Jacques...

two years later. His son, Count Charles Paul Victor Pajol (1821–1891), entered the army and reached the rank of général de division when, during the Franco-Prussian...

Charles de Cossé, 1st Duke of Brissac (c. 1550 –c. 1621) was a French noble, military commander, governor, courtier and rebel during the latter French...

the Hôtel de Luynes on the rue Saint Dominique. He was the only child of Charles Philippe d'Albert de Luynes and his wife Louise Léontine de Bourbon, he...

Aimée de Rohan, Mademoiselle de Montbazon (December 1600 – 12 August 1679) married Charles d'Albert de Luynes and had issue; married again to Claude de Lorraine...