Jean-Antoine Marbot
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Jean-Antoine Marbot , also known as Antoine Marbot (pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ ɑ̃twan maʁbo] ; * December 7, 1754 in Altillac , † April 19, 1800 near Genoa ), was a French general and politician .
Live and act
Marbot joined the royal army around 1774 and later switched to the royal guard . Enthusiastic about the ideals of the revolution from the start, he quit his job in 1789 and tried to gain a foothold in politics.
From 1790 he helped to restructure the administration of the Corrèze department and from September 3, 1791 he represented the interests of this department as a member of the National Assembly .
On August 30, 1793, Marbot was promoted to brigadier general. He fought against the Spaniards in the Pyrenees under General Luc Siméon Auguste Dagobert and was able to distinguish himself several times.
Marbot then returned to Paris and became a member of the Council of Elders' Chamber of Parliament ( Conseil des Anciens ). From mid-October 1795 he represented the Corrèze department there. From September 6 to 23, 1797 and later again on June 19, 1798, Marbot headed the Council of Elders as President. As military governor of Paris , he succeeded General Barthélemy-Catherine Joubert .
Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès and Napoleon Bonaparte, who were planning to overthrow the governing board of directors, feared Marbot's intervention and offered him a post in the Italian Army, which he accepted. As a division general took part in the Battle of the Trebbia (June 17-19, 1799) and the Battle of Novi (August 25, 1799). From 6 to January 15, 1800 was by interim briefly commander of the Army of Italy . Under the leadership of General André Masséna he took part in the siege of Genoa (April / June 1800) and was seriously wounded. In the field hospital , he also fell ill with typhus and died on 19 April 1800's.
Jean-Antoine Marbot was the father of the generals Adolphe Marbot (1781–1844) and Marcellin Marbot (1782–1854).
Honors
- His name can be found on the western pillar (34th column) of the triumphal arch on Place Charles-de-Gaulle (Paris).
- The avenue des Généraux Marbot in Altillac is named after him and his sons.
literature
- Alphonse Rabbe, Claude-Augustin Vieilh de Boisjolin, François de Sainte-Preuve: Biographie universelle et portative des contemporains ou Dictionnaire historique des hommes vivants et des hommes morts depuis 1788 jusqu'à nos jours . Volume 3, Levrault, Paris 1834.
- Charles Mullié: Biography of the célébrités militaires des armées de terre et de mer de 1789 à 1850 . Poignavant, Paris 1851 (2 volumes).
- Stephen Pope: The Cassell Dictionary of the Napoleonic Wars . Cassell, London 1999, ISBN 0-304-35229-2 .
- Adolphe Robert, Gaston Cougny: Dictionnaire des parlementaires français de 1789 à 1889. Volume 4, Slatkine Reprint, Geneva 2000, ISBN 2-05-101711-5 (unmodified reprint of the Paris 1890 edition).
- 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 Paris 1934 edition).
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| SURNAME | Marbot, Jean-Antoine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French infantry division general and politician, member of the National Assembly |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 7, 1754 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Altillac |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 19, 1800 |
| Place of death | at Genoa |