Charles-Tristan de Montholon

Charles-Tristan de Montholon (Portrait of Édouard Pingret , 1840)

Charles Tristan, Marquis de Montholon , Count von Lee, (* July 21, 1783 in Paris , † August 24, 1853 in Paris) was adjutant general of Emperor Napoleon I.

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Coming from an old family of lawyers, he distinguished himself as a midshipman on board the Juno in 1792 with the squadron of Admiral Laurent Truguet during the expedition to Sardinia, entered a cavalry regiment in 1798 and fought in Italy, Germany and Poland and was promoted to colonel in 1807 .

Appointed chamberlain in 1809 , he was drawn into the immediate vicinity of the emperor and, after having carried out several diplomatic missions, was sent to the court of Grand Duke Ferdinand von Würzburg as an authorized minister in 1811 .

In 1814 de Montholon became general de brigade , was adjutant general of Napoleon during the reign of the Hundred Days and followed him into exile in St. Helena . Entrusted by Napoleon with the execution of his will and the preservation of part of his manuscripts , he gave the Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de France sous Napoleon, écrits à Ste-Hélène sous sadictée (Paris 1822-1825, 8 vols.) With General Gourgaud ., 2nd edition 1830; also Berlin 1822–1825, 8 vols., And at the same time German edition).

De Montholon took part on August 6, 1840 in the second attempted coup by Louis Napoléon in Boulogne , which failed, which is why he was arrested and sentenced to 20 years imprisonment by the Pairshof . He was allowed to share his detention with Louis Napoléon in Ham . With the February Revolution of 1848 he was released. The Niedercharente department elected him to the legislature in 1849 .

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• Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition from 1888–1890.