Charles Louis Dieudonné Grandjean

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Baron Charles Louis Dieudonné Grandjean (born December 29, 1768 in Nancy , † September 15, 1828 Ibid) was a French Général de division . His name is emblazoned on the eastern side of the triumphal arch de l'Etoile .

origin

His parents were the lawyer François Dieudonné Grandjean d'Alteville and his wife Jeanne Maletz .

Life

He also studied law at the University of Göttingen . When the French Revolution broke out, he joined the National Guard. He led a unit in the Château-Salins district and then joined the army. As early as 1792 he took part in the campaign on the Rhine under Adam-Philippe de Custine as a Sous-lieutenant of the 105 e régiment d'infanterie . He then served as an adjutant in the Rhine and Moselle Army until he was transferred to the army in Italy in the same capacity . During this time he rose quickly and was promoted to Colonel on May 12, 1796 .

With the opening of hostilities in Italy on May 7, 1799 (7th Prairial of the year VII), he captured an entrenched camp. He made 1200 prisoners and captured four cannons and bridge-building equipment. Two horses under him were killed in this action, and on the same day he was promoted to the Général de brigade . During this campaign he received two serious wounds in the battle of the Trebia , in which he fought with determination.

Ordered back to the Rhine Army, on May 3, 1800 (13th Floreal of the year VIII), he contributed not a little to the victory in the Battle of Stockach by driving eight Austrian battalions out of a wood on the back of the plateau of Mühlhausen covered. Soon after, Jean-Victor Moreau sent him with a troop detachment to Vorarlberg and Graubünden to reinforce General Lecourbe's corps . With this he fought in the battle near Oberhausen on June 27, 1800. In the battle of Hohenlinden on December 3, 1800, he repulsed the attack of a column from Hungary, forcing them to flee into a wood. The commander in chief mentioned this act in his report to the government. On his return to France Grandjean received a command in the fourth and fifth military divisions until 1805 and was appointed a member of the Legion of Honor on (25th Prairial of the year XII) May 15, 1804 , after he had been promoted to Général de division shortly before was. Appointed to the army of Marshal Brune in Pomerania , he was commissioned in 1807 to drive out a Swedish corps that had holed up on the heights of Greifenhagen. In April he commanded the troops left behind in Stralsund , but soon found himself obliged to retreat, as he did not have enough men available to resist the garrison troops. In August he defeated the Swedes at Anklam , who wanted to prevent his crossing over the Peene .

After the Peace of Tilsit he was ordered to the Iberian Peninsula . There he was able to distinguish himself immediately. By forcing 1,200 Spaniards who had holed up in Lerín on October 25, 1808 , to surrender their weapons. In 1809 he commanded a division of the siege army off Saragossa . After conquering this city, however, he returned to Germany, where he earned his elevation to imperial baron (January 31, 1810) in the battle of Wagram .

In the war against Russia he was with Corps Macdonald and took part as commander of the 7th Infantry Division with the Prussians in the battles in Livonia . He took part in the tenacious defense of the city of Gdansk in 1813 . He was mentioned many times in General Rapp's reports and with great praise. After Napoleon's abdication and the Restoration , he immediately made himself available to the new government. The King made him a Knight of the Order of St. Louis . But when he took over command of the 5th Army Corps on the Rhine when Napoleon returned, he was retired after the second restoration. In 1821 he was elected deputy of the Château-Salins district, and took his seat in the Chamber among the members of the opposition. However, he does not seem to have complied with the wishes of his voters because they did not renew their mandate. Grandjean died on September 15, 1828.

family

On February 13, 1794, he married Marie-Madeleine Mouton (1767–1840), a daughter of Marshal Georges Mouton . The couple had two children:

  • Victor Aimé (November 7, 1794 - December 1859) ∞ Octavie de Barthelemy († August 9, 1884)
  • Octavie (* April 17, 1798) ∞ Hubert Joseph Vincent Perrin (* 1785)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hubert Joseph Vincent Perrin at geneanet.org
personal data
SURNAME Grandjean, Charles Louis Dieudonné
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French baron and division general
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1768
PLACE OF BIRTH Nancy
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 1828
Place of death Nancy