Ferdinand Baston de La Riboisière

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General Lariboisière and his son (oil on canvas, Antoine-Jean Gros , 1st half of the 19th century)

Ferdinand Baston de La Riboisière or Lariboisière (born October 5, 1790 in Fougères , † September 12, 1812 in Russia ), French cavalry officer of the Grande Armée .

Life

Bonaventure-Ferdinand Baston de La Riboisière was the younger son of the artillery general Jean-Ambroise Baston, Count of La Riboisière (1759-1812). His mother was Marie-Jeanne Le Beschu de La Raslaye (1760-1844).

In 1806 Ferdinand became Napoleon's page at the French imperial court. In 1808 he was a soldier in Spain and in 1809 in Germany. As a lieutenant in the 3rd Company of the 1st Carabinier Regiment (heavy cavalry), he participated in the Russian campaign in 1812 . Hit by a bullet at the Battle of Borodino (September 7, 1812), he died a few days later from his wound. The emperor's personal surgeon, Alexandre-Urbain Yvan , had tried in vain for him.

Napoleon awarded Lariboisière the Cross of the Legion of Honor while still on the battlefield. Louis-François Lejeune , general and painter, immortalized the scene in his painting Bataille de la Moskowa, 7th September 1812 (1822, Versailles, musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon).

His heart, like that of his father, who also perished in the Russian campaign, rests in the chapel of the castle of Monthorin in Louvigné-du-Désert , the residence of his family that he bought in 1807.

literature

  • Granges de Surgères, Anatole: Iconographie bretonne: ou, List de portraits dessinés, gravés ou lithographies de personnages nés en Bretagne ou appartenant à l'histoire de cette province. - Rennes [et al.]: Plihon et Hervé [et al.], 1888-1889