Bon-Adrien-Jeannot de Moncey
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Bon-Adrien-Jeannot de Moncey , Duke of Conegliano (born July 31, 1754 in Moncey near Besançon , † April 20, 1842 Paris ) was a French general and Maréchal d'Empire .
biography
Moncey, son of a Parlementsadvokaten , came in 1769 in the army and became 1789 Capitaine ( Captain ). After he led a command in the army of the Eastern Pyrenees in 1793 , he was Général de brigade in 1794 , soon afterwards Général de division , and after he had conquered Fuenterrabia , San Sebastián and Tolosa and won the victory of Villanova on Oct. 17, 1794 , he forced 1795 Spain to the armistice of San Sebastián and the peace of Basel . In September 1796 he received command of the 11 e and in 1799 from the First Consul, whom he was inCoup of 18 Brumaire had supported that of the 15 e Division in Lyon . In the 1800 campaign he led a corps of 20,000 men over the St. Gotthard Pass , fought with distinction at Marengo and defeated the Austrians at Monzambano and Roveredo .
After the Treaty of Lunéville in 1801 he was appointed "Inspecteur de Gendarmerie ", in 1804 as Maréchal d'Empire and in 1805 as Duke of Conegliano. In 1808 he entered Spain with a corps, defeated the insurgents of Valencia at the Almanza pass , took part in the failed siege of Saragossa and won the battle of Tudela with Lannes on November 23, 1808 . The following year his troops took part in the second successful siege of Zaragoza (1809) . As an opponent of Napoleon's policy of conquest , he was only given the inspection of the reserve squadrons in the campaigns of 1812 and 1813. In January 1814 he was appointed deputy commander of the National Guard in Paris and on March 30th helped defend the city. After the emperor's abdication, he was taken over by Louis XVIII. the pair raised, but lost because of his refusal to former comrades- Michel Ney , judging by 1815 this dignity and received it only in 1819 again. In 1820 he became the Kommandandten of 9 e appointed Division; In 1823 he commanded the 4 e Corps in Spain, with whom he Catalonia conquered. After his return he belonged to the moderate opposition until the July Revolution in the Chambre des Pairs . Louis-Philippe appointed him governor of the Invalides in 1833 . In 1840 he received the remains of Napoleon and had them buried in the Invalides in Paris. Among the generals of the first empire he was distinguished by his noble and moderate character. He died on April 20, 1842. The title Duke of Conegliano passed to his son-in-law, Alphonse Auguste Duchesne, Baron Gillevoisin, Marquis de Conegliano, 2 e duc de Conegliano (1791–1878).
Honors
His name is entered on the triumphal arch in Paris in the 33rd column. A memorial was erected to him on the Place de Clichy .
literature
- in French
- Joachim Ambert: Notice historique sur le Maréchal Moncey . Imprimerie de Lange-Léry, Paris 1842.
- Louis-Joseph-Gabriel de Chenier: Éloge historique du maréchal Moncey . Dumaine, Paris 1848.
- Duc de Conegliano (grandson): Le Maréchal Moncey, Duc de Conegliano (1754–1842). Lettres and documents . Calmann-Lévy, Paris 1901.
- Michel Molières: Le Maréchal Moncey, duc de Conegliano. L'intraitable officier de Napoléon . Le Livre chez vous, Paris 2004, ISBN 2-914288-18-2 .
- Amable Regnault: Notice biographique sur le maréchal Moncey, duc de Conegliano . Imprimerie Mareschal, Paris 1868.
- in German language
- Carl Bleibtreu : Marshals, Generals, soldiers of Napoleon I. VRZ Verlag, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-931482-63-4 (reprint of the Berlin 1899 edition).
- Désiré Lacroix: The Marshals of Napoleon I ("Les Maréchaux de Napoléon"). Verlag Schmidt & Günther, Leipzig 1898.
- Jürgen Sternberger: The marshals of Napoleon . Edition Pro Business, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86805-172-8 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Moncey, Bon-Adrien-Jeannot de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French general and Marshal of France |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 31, 1754 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moncey , Besancon |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 20, 1842 |