Georges Mouton de Lobau

Georges Mouton de Lobau

Georges Mouton, comte de Lobau (born February 21, 1770 in Phalsbourg , France , † November 27, 1838 in Paris , France) was a French peer and marshal of France .

Life

Georges Mouton volunteered in the French army in 1792, became chief de bataillon in 1797 and colonel in 1800 .

Napoleon I promoted him to Brigadier General (fr: Généal de brigade) in the Boulogne camp at the beginning of 1805 and soon afterwards to his adjutant. During the Austrian War of 1805 and the Prussian War of 1806 and 1807, he was consistently close to the Emperor.

After the Peace of Tilsiter promoted to general inspector of the infantry and to the general de division , he received on December 6, 1807 the command of the observation corps in the Pyrenees . In 1808 he commanded a division in Spain . When the Austrian War broke out in 1809 , he was called back to Germany and prevented General Hiller from uniting with Archduke Karl by storming Landshut on April 21 . On May 21, 1809, during the Battle of Aspern, at the head of the fusiliers of the Imperial Guard , he stormed the village of Eßling near Vienna and thereby contributed significantly to the rescue of the French army, which was mostly concentrated in the Danube floodplains on the island of Lobau , for which the Kaiser made him Count of Lobau (Comte de Lobau) appointed.

From Napoleon's return to Waterloo

In 1812, as adjutant general, he was one of the few companions of Napoleon on his return to France. In the spring of 1813 he fought at Lützen and Bautzen , after the defeat of Kulm he was given orders for the remnants of the defeated corps in Vandamme's place. With the Marshal Gouvion Saint-Cyr he was included in Dresden , he was included in the surrender of the same and remained in Austrian captivity until the peace. Returned to France, he received after Napoleon's return from the island of Elba in 1815 the command of the 1st military division and the peerage and fought at the head of the 6th army corps with Ligny and Waterloo . Here he was taken prisoner by the English.

restoration

Exiled from France after the Restoration, he stayed in Belgium until he was allowed to return in 1818. Elected in 1828 by the Department of Meurthe, he voted for the address of 221 and, after the July Revolution, was appointed a member of the Municipal Commission, which provisionally took over the government. On December 26, 1830, he was given Lafayette's place in command of the National Guard , at whose head he energetically suppressed the tumults of 1832 and 1834. On July 30, 1831 he received the marshal's baton . He died in Paris in 1838 .

His name is entered on the triumphal arch in Paris in the 14th column (MOUTON).

literature

• David G. Chandler: Dictionary of the Napoleonic Wars . New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1979.
• Philip J. Haythornthwaite: Who Was Who in the Napoleonic Wars . London: Arms & Armor, 1998.
• Georges Six: Dictionnaire Biographique des Généraux & Amiraux Français de la Révolution et de l'Empire (1792–1814), Gaston Saffroy, Paris 2003

Web links

• Biography on www.frenchempire.net