Joseph Rogniat

Joseph Rogniat

Joseph Rogniat (born November 9, 1776 in Saint-Priest , Métropole de Lyon , † May 8, 1840 in Paris ) was a French Général de division of the pioneers .

Live and act

Rogniat came from a traditional family of officers, his father was General Jean-Baptiste Rogniat and his grandfather Colonel Alexandre Rogniat. The politician Jean Baptiste Rogniat was his older brother.

At the request of his family, Rogniat attended the École d'application de l'artillerie et du génie (→ Metz Fortress ) in Metz ( Moselle department ). He was already able to distinguish himself as a cadet and his career led him from Sous-lieutenant (March 5, 1795) to Capitaine (April 20, 1797) and Chef de bataillon (June 9, 1800).

When Napoleon Bonaparte was planning his invasion of Spain in 1807 , he also sought advice from Rogniat because of the inevitable sieges.

On February 19, 1808 he was promoted to Colonel and on March 6 of the same year to Général de brigade .

Rogniat took part in the sieges of Saragossa (December 1808 / February 1809), Lérida (April / May 1810), Ciudad Rodrigo (April / July 1810), Tortosa (December 1810 / January 1811), Tarragona (May / June 1811) , Valencia (November 1811 / January 1812) and Badajoz (March / April 1812).

On July 9, 1811, he was promoted to Général de division .

Rogniat did not take part in the Battle of Paris (March 30, 1814). After the Treaty of Fontainebleau (April 11, 1814), Rogniat returned to Paris and began to support the Bourbons .

When Napoleon left the island of Elba and his rule of the Hundred Days began, Rogniat rejoined the emperor, but did not take part in the battle of Waterloo (June 18, 1815); even after Napoleon's final abdication on June 22, 1815, he stood by King Louis XVIII. In gratitude for this, King Charles X appointed him to the Conseiller d'état (Council of State) in 1828 . Rogniat did not interfere in the domestic politics of the country. When after the July Revolution of 1830 , the July Monarchy was constituted, king called Louis-Philippe I Rogniat for Peer of France (→ Chambre des Pairs ).

Over time, Rogniat gave up all his offices and retired into private life. He died in Paris on May 8, 1840, and found his final resting place in the Père Lachaise cemetery (Division 50).

Honors

• 1808 Officer of the Legion of Honor
• 1810 baron de l'Émpire
• 1815 Ordre royal et militaire de Saint-Louis
• 20th October 1820 Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor
• 1826 vicomte
• 1829 honorary member of the Académie des sciences
• 1831 Peer of France
• His name can be found on the western pillar (36th column) of the triumphal arch on Place Charles de Gaulle (Paris)

Fonts (selection)

• De la colonization en Algérie et des fortifications propres à garantis les colons des invasions des tribus africaines . Paris 1840.
• Rélation des sièges de Saragosse et de Tortose par les Français dans le dernière guerre d'Espagne . Paris 1814.

literature

• Karl Bleibtreu : Marshals, Generals, Soldiers of Napoleon I. VRZ-Verlag, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-931482-63-4 (unchanged reprint of the Berlin 1899 edition)
• Joseph Marty: Joseph Rogniat . In: Ders .: Les principaux monuments funéraires de Père-Lachaise, de Montmartre, de Mont-Parnasse et autres cimetières de Paris , Édition Bédelt, Paris 1839, pp. 291-293.
• Charles Mullié: Biography of the célébrités militaires des armées de terre et de mer de 1789 à 1850, vol. 2 . Poignavant, Paris 1850.
• Georges Six: Dictionnaire biographique des généraux et amiraux français de la Révolution et de l'Émpire. 1792-1814 . Saffroy, PAris 1999, ISBN 2-901541-06-2 (reprint of the Paris 1934 edition)

Web links

• Joseph Rogniat at Arcdetriomph.info