Adolphe Marbot

General Adolphe Marbot

Antoine Adolphe Marcelin Marbot , known as Adolphe Marbot (pronunciation: [adɔlf maʁbo] ; * March 22, 1781 in Altillac , † June 2, 1844 in Brâ near Tulle ), was a French maréchal de camp (brigadier general).

Life

His father was General Jean-Antoine Marbot (1754-1800). His younger brother Marcellin Marbot (1782-1854) was also a general. Adolphe Marbot became a soldier at a young age. During the French Revolutionary Wars he was promoted to officer. He was adjutant to Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, who later became King Charles XIV John of Sweden .

In 1802 he was arrested on charges of being involved in a Republican plot against the consulate . Although he was released, Napoleon Bonaparte continued to regard him as an opponent of the existing rule.

After he did his military service in Santo Domingo , he took part in the Fourth Coalition War (1806-1807). From 1808 to 1811 he was used in the war on the Pyrenees Peninsula. During the Russian campaign in 1812 he was wounded and arrested as a prisoner of war. After two years of imprisonment, he returned to France. In 1814, during the reign of the Hundred Days , he was adjutant to Marshal Davout . He was retired shortly afterwards .

He did not reappear until 1830 and became a general under Louis-Philippe during the July reign .

Honors

• Legion of Honor : Knight (1807)
• Order of Saint-Louis : Knight (1814)
• Legion of Honor : Officer (1831)
• Legion of Honor : Commander (1832)

literature

• Alphonse Rabbe, Claude-Augustin Vieilh de Boisjolin, François de Sainte-Preuve: Marbot, Antoine Adolphe Marcelin . In: Biography universelle et portative des contemporains ou Dictionnaire historique des hommes vivants et des hommes morts depuis 1788 jusqu'à nos jours . Volume 3, Levrault, Paris 1834, pp. 452-453.
• Hugh Chisholm: Marbot, Jean Baptiste Antoine Marcelin; Marbot, Antoine Adolphe Marcelin . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . Volume 17, Cambridge University Press 1911, p. 680.
• Marcelin Marbot: Mémoires de Général Baron de Marbot . Plon, Paris 1892.
  • German translation: Memoirs of the French General Marcellin de Marbot . VRZ-Verlag, Hamburg 1999 (reprint of the Stuttgart 1899 edition).
  1. Genoa, Austerlitz, Jena, Eylau . 1999, ISBN 3-931482-60-X .
  2. Madrid, Aspern, Torres Vedras . 1999, ISBN 3-931482-61-8 .
  3. Polotsk, Beresina, Leipzig, Waterloo . 1999, ISBN 3-931482-62-6 .

Web links

Commons : Adolphe Marbot  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Contemporaries knew him as "Adolphe Marbot". The name " Antoine Marbot " referred to his father.
2. ^ Marbot, Antoine Adolphe Marcelin (LH / 1723/42) - Archives nationales, Paris.