Guillaume Dode de la Brunerie

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Guillaume Viscount Dode de la Brunerie

Guillaume Vicomte Dode de la Brunerie (born April 30, 1775 in Saint-Geoire , Département Isère , †  February 28, 1851 in Paris ) was a Marshal of France .

Dode de la Brunerie left the genius school in Metz in 1795 and took part in the wars of the Republic and the Empire in almost all European theaters of war as well as in Egypt . Repeatedly he led larger fortification works and stood out especially in Spain during the sieges of Saragossa and Badajoz . In 1813 he was assigned the defense of Glogau as a division general , which he only did after the peace preliminaries had been concluded on the orders of King Louis XVIII. Handed command. When Napoleon returned to France from Elba in 1815 , Dode de la Brunerie did not enter his service.

In 1823 he accompanied the French army advancing to Spain as chief of geniuses and after returning home published the work Précis des opérations contre Cadix 1823 (Paris 1824). Since September 1, 1840, Dode de la Brunerie was entrusted with the upper management of the fortifications of Paris and carried out this task. Before that he was appointed to the head of the fortification committee.

Dode de la Brunerie was the first Marshal of France to emerge from the group of geniuses since Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban . He died in retirement on February 28, 1851 in Paris.

Honors

His name is entered on the triumphal arch in Paris in the 22nd column (DODE).

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