Gabriel de Hédouville

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Gabriel de Hédouville

Gabriel de Hédouville , actually Gabriel Marie Théodore Joseph de Hédouville (born July 27, 1755 in Laon , † March 30, 1825 in Brétigny-sur-Orge ) was a French Général de division of the cavalry and politician.

Life

Hédouville came from an old family of officers; his father fought for King Louis XV. u. a. in Flanders . Hédouville came to the military school Collège Henri IV de la Flêche as a cadet early on . He was soon able to distinguish himself and for some time became the page of Queen Maria Leszczyńska .

In 1769 he came to the École militaire in Paris . After a short time he was promoted and he was able to experience the cannonade at Valmy (September 20, 1792) in the General Staff.

Under General Jean-Baptiste Annibal Aubert du Bayet , Hédouville led its own command and helped put down the Vendée uprising against the emigrant army .

When General Charles Victoire Emmanuel Leclerc put together an invading army to fight the insurgents at Saint-Domingue ( Hispaniola ) under the leadership of Toussaint Louverture (→ Haitian Revolution ), he volunteered.

On behalf of Napoleon , Hédouville traveled to Saint Petersburg on a diplomatic mission ; a job that kept him at the court of Tsar Alexander I in Russia for over two years .

On February 1, 1804, Napoleon appointed Hédouville senator and he held this office until the emperor abdicated (→ Treaty of Fontainebleau ). At the same time he was also appointed chamberlain to the emperor.

When Napoleon left the island of Elba in 1815 and his rule of the Hundred Days began, Hédouville retained his seat in the Chamber of Deputies. As a peer of France , he was a member of the jury that judged Marshal Michel Ney ; Hédouville spoke out in favor of a death sentence.

A few weeks before his 70th birthday, Gabriel de Hédouville died on March 30, 1825 in Brétigny-sur-Orge. Hédouville's longstanding opponent, Comte de Bourmont , spoke a poignant eulogy on him on June 10 of the same year .

Honors

literature

  • David Chandler: The campaigns of Napoleon . Weidenfeld, London 1993, ISBN 0-297-81367-6 (reprint of the London 1966 edition).
  • Adolphe Robert, Gaston Cougny: Dictionnaire des parlementaires français, Vol. 3 . Slatkine, Geneva 2000, ISBN 2-05-101711-5 (reprint of the Paris edition 1889/91).
  • Georges Six: Dictionnaire biographique des généraux & amiraux français de la Révolution et de l'Émpire. 1792-1814 . Saffroy, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-901541-06-2 (reprint of the Paris 1934 edition).
  • Jean Tulard : Dictionnaire Napoléon . Fayard, Paris 1995, ISBN 2-213-02286-0 .
personal data
SURNAME Hédouville, Gabriel de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hédouville, Grabriel Marie Théodore Joseph de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French cavalry general and politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1755
PLACE OF BIRTH Laon
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 1825
Place of death Brétigny-sur-Orge