François-Xavier Donzelot
François-Xavier Donzelot (born January 7, 1764 in Mamirolle , Doubs department , † June 11, 1843 in Neuilly-sur-Marne , Seine-Saint-Denis department ) was a French politician and Général de division .
Live and act
Donzelot was the son of the officer François Donzelot and his wife Jeanne-Baptiste Maire.
At the age of 21, Donzelot joined the army in 1785 and joined an infantry regiment. He was promoted soon and was 1792 Sous-lieutenant and in 1793 Lieutenant . As such, he was transferred to the Rhine Army and served in the artillery under General Jean-Charles Pichegru .
In 1797 Donzelot was wounded and returned to France. There he got to know Napoleon personally and volunteered when he was planning his invasion of Egypt . Donzelot fought at the Pyramids (July 21, 1798), Sédiman (October 7, 1798) and Heliopolis (March 20, 1800). He received several awards and was promoted to Général de brigade in March 1801 . As such, Donzelot led the delegation after the surrender of Alexandria (August 31, 1801), which negotiated the withdrawal of French troops with the British.
Then Donzelot returned to France and after some more administrative tasks he came to the staff of General Louis-Alexandre Berthier . When the Ionian Islands were ceded by the Russian Empire to France after the Peace of Tilsit (July 7, 1807) , a French expeditionary army landed on Corfu that same year . After the change was completed, Donzelot replaced Berthier and proclaimed the Corcyre department as governor on behalf of Napoleon . He held this office until 1814 and then returned to France (→ Republic of the Ionian Islands ).
Donzelot fought in the Battle of Waterloo (June 18, 1815) and was then placed on half pay at his own request without a new position . He also did not support Napoleon during his reign of the Hundred Days .
King Louis XVIII Appointed Donzelot as governor of Martinique ( Lesser Antilles ) in 1818 . In 1826 Donzelot gave up this office and returned to France. He settled in his hometown and later moved to his castle Château de Ville-Evrard near Neuilly-sur-Marne.
François-Xavier Donzelot died in his castle on June 11, 1843 and found his final resting place in the Neuilly-sur-Marne cemetery.
Honors
- 1808 baron de l'Émpire
- 1819 comte
- His name can be found on the eastern pillar (17th column) of the Triumphal Arch on Place Charles-de-Gaulle (Paris)
literature
- Mark Atkin: The Waterloo Companion. The complete guide to history's most famous land battle . Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburs, Pa. 2001, ISBN 0-8117-1854-9 .
- Charles-Théodore Beauvais de Préau: Biographie militaire française. Table du temple de la gloire . Édition Panckoucke, Paris 1821.
- Douglas Dakin: The Greek struggle for independence. 1821-1833 . University Press, Berkeley, Calif. 1973, ISBN 0-520-02342-0 .
- John R. Elting: Swords around a throne. Napoleon's Grand Armée . Da Capo Press, New York 1997, ISBN 0-306-80757-2 .
- Charles Mullié: Bibliography des célébrité militaires des armées de terre et de mer de 1789 à 1850, vol. 1 . Poignavant, Paris 1850.
- Georges Six: Dictionnaire biography des généraux & amiraux français de la Révolution et de l'Émpire. 1792-1814 . Saffroy, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-901541-06-2 (unchanged reprint of the Paris 1934 edition)
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Donzelot, François-Xavier |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French politician and general |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 7, 1764 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mamirolle , Doubs department |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 11, 1843 |
| Place of death | Neuilly-sur-Marne , Seine-Saint-Denis department |