Joseph Laurent Demont

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Joseph Laurent Demont , also Joseph Laurent de Mont , (born September 29, 1747 in Sartrouville , Département Yvelines , † May 5, 1826 in Paris ) was a French Général de division and politician with Swiss roots.

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Demont was the son of the Swiss guardsman Joseph Marie De Mont and his wife Marie Elisabeth Imhof. He attended the monastery schools in Pfäfers and Disentis .

In 1764 Demont joined the army in his homeland and four years later came to the Waldner von Freundstein Regiment with the rank of Sous-lieutenant and served the French King Louis XV. He was soon honored and in 1782 he joined the Vigier Regiment as an aide major .

Enthusiastic about the ideas of the revolution , he joined the revolutionary militias in 1789 and joined General Jean-Victor Moreau's staff in 1797 as Adjudant-Général . In 1798 Demont was wounded in front of Chur . After his recovery was followed by further promotions, and in 1799 he took the rank of Général de brigade of Napoleon's invasion of Grisons in part.

Demont took part in the Battle of Austerlitz (December 2, 1805) and was promoted to Général de division with effect from December 21 of the same year . He was wounded in the battle of Eggmühl (April 22, 1809) and after his recovery took over duties in the military administration.

After the Battle of Paris (March 30, 1814) and the Treaty of Fontainebleau (April 11, 1814) Demont became a supporter of the Bourbons . When Napoleon left the island of Elba and his rule of the Hundred Days began, Demont no longer joined the emperor. He also did not take part in the Battle of Waterloo (June 18, 1815) and briefly lost all his offices.

During the Restoration , Demont got all of his ranks and offices back. King Louis XVIII thanked him for his support . at Demont with the appointment as a pair of France (→ Chambre des Pairs ). As such he became a member of the court martial that sentenced Marshal Michel Ney on December 6, 1815 ; Demont voted in favor of execution.

Joseph Laurent Demont died on May 5, 1826 in Paris and was laid to rest in the Père Lachaise cemetery (28th division).

Honors

literature

Fiction
  • Maurus Carnot: General Demont. Chronicle of the Gray Covenant War and “Peace makes it known” . 2nd edition Orell Füssli, Zurich 1916.
  • Toni Halter: General Demont. Drama en cinq acts . Edition Desertina, Munstér 1963.
Non-fiction
  • Ursus Brunold: Mont, Joseph Laurent de. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  • David G. Chandler : The campaigns of Napoleon . Weidenfeld, London 1993, ISBN 0-297-81367-6 (reprint of the London 1966 edition).
  • Toni Halter: Joseph Laurent Demont . In: Important Bündner. Ceremony of the Graubündner Kantonalbank on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of its foundation in 1870, vol. 1 . Calven-Verlag, Chur 1970.
  • Jean Hubert-Brierre: De la bure à l'argent. Histoire des Grisons, gardes suisses et suisses de porte . Mémoire d'Hommes, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-84367-001-2 , pp. 455-465.
  • Petra Märk: General Joseph Laurent Demont. From Graubünden in foreign service to the Pair de France . Verlag Desertina, Chur 2009, ISBN 978-3-85637-375-7 .
  • Charles Mullié: Biography of the célébrités militaires des armées de terre et de mer de 1789 à 1850, vol. 1 . Poignavant, Paris 1851.
  • Adolphe Robert and Gaston Cougny: Dictionnaire des parlamentaires français, Vol. 2: Cay – Fes . Slatkine, Geneva 2000, ISBN 2-05-101711-5 (unchanged reprint of the Paris 1889 edition)
  • Georges Six: Dictionnaire biographique des généraux & amiraux français de la Revolution et de l'Émpire. 1792-1814 . Saffroy, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-901541-06-2 (unchanged reprint of the Paris 1934 edition)

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Remarks

  1. ↑ The Historical Dictionary Switzerland are as birth to 28 September 1747 and the date of death the May 8, 1826 at
personal data
SURNAME Demont, Joseph Laurent
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mont, Joseph Laurent de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French general and politician with Swiss roots
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1747
PLACE OF BIRTH Sartrouville , Yvelines department
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 1826
Place of death Paris