Jean-Baptiste Philibert Vaillant

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Jean-Baptiste Vaillant

Jean-Baptiste-Philibert Vaillant (born December 6, 1790 in Dijon , † June 4, 1872 in Paris ) was Marshal of France and Minister of War.

Life

Vaillant joined the Genie Corps in 1809 , accompanied Général François Nicolas Benoît Haxo on the Russian campaign as adjutant in 1812 , and was captured in the Battle of Kulm (29/30 August 1813) in 1813. He took part in the fortification of Paris during Napoleon's reign of the Hundred Days and fought at Ligny (June 16, 1815) and Waterloo (June 18, 1815).

He took part in the campaign against Algiers in 1830 as chief de bataillon , then took part as lieutenant-colonel in the expeditions to Belgium in 1831 and 1832, was fortress director in Algiers in 1837/1838 and was then given command of the École polytechnique . He gave up this position in 1845 - with the rank of Général de corps d'armée - to take over the management of the Paris fortifications.

In May 1849 he was given command of the engineering troops in the Roman expeditionary corps and acquired the rank of Marshal of France during the siege of Rome . In 1854 he took over the war ministry and in 1860 the portfolio of the imperial house.

From 1856 he was an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg and since 1853 a member of the Académie des Sciences . In January 1864 he received the dignity of Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honor . Exiled from France in 1870 after the fall of the Second Empire , he returned to Paris in 1871 and died there on June 4, 1872.

literature

  • Biographies in: Archives Biographiques Françaises (ABF) , Series I, Fiche 1007, fields 303–316. Series II, Fiche 619, fields 276-278. Series III, Fiche 442, fields 203-205

Web links

Commons : Jean-Baptiste Vaillant  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Jean-Baptiste-Philibert Vaillant. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed August 8, 2015 .
  2. ^ List of former members since 1666: Letter V. Académie des sciences, accessed on March 8, 2020 (French).
predecessor Office successor
Armand-Jacques-Achille Leroy de Saint-Arnaud Minister of War of France
March 11, 1854 - May 5, 1859 		Jacques-Louis Randon
personal data
SURNAME Vaillant, Jean-Baptiste
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vaillant, Jean-Baptiste-Philibert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French general and Marshal of France
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1790
PLACE OF BIRTH Dijon
DATE OF DEATH June 4, 1872
Place of death Paris