Léonard Duphot

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Léonard Duphot

Léonard Mathurin Duphot (born September 21, 1769 in Lyon , † December 28, 1797 in Rome ) was a French poet and general. If at all, he is only known today as the author of the Ode aux mânes des héros morts pour la liberté .

Live and act

Duphot came from a family of craftsmen; his father was a stonemason, his paternal grandfather a bricklayer. On July 25, 1785, Duphot joined the royal army as a volunteer . Through the upheavals of the revolution he got to know Napoleon Bonaparte and became his supporter early on.

Duphot was distinguished by bravery and was soon promoted: Sergent (March 25, 1793), Adjudant-général (November 1, 1794) and in 1796 came to the staff of General Charles Pierre François Augereau . Under his command he fought u. a. before Bassano (September 8, 1796), Mantua (January / February 1797) and Rivoli (January 14/15, 1797). When Napoleon founded the Cisalpine Republic on June 29, 1797 , Duphot was involved in installing an administration for it.

When Duphot came to Rome in December 1797, he had the rank of Général de brigade . In the palace of the French ambassador Joseph Bonaparte he met Désirée Clary whom he wanted to marry as soon as possible. During a festival there on December 28, 1797, the festival company was attacked by "papist soldiers" and a. Duphot shot. In response to this attack, French troops occupied all of Rome a few days later and Napoleon banished the Pope from Rome. On August 17, 1798, Désirée Clary married the later King of Sweden , Karl Johann Bernadotte .

Honors

Trivia

The painters E. Deschamps and Jean-Édouard Dargent (1824–1899) created portraits of General Duphot and the writer Emmanuel de Las Cases also thematizes Léonard Duphot in his story “Le mémorial de Saint-Hélène”.

Web links

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)
  • Charles Mullié: Biography of the célébrités militaires des armées de terre et de mer de 1789 à 1850, vol. 1 . Poignavant, Paris 1852.
  • Georges Six: Dictionnaire biographique des généraux et amiraux français de la Révolution et de l'Émpire. 1792-1814, Vol. 1 . Saffroy, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-901541-06-2 (unchanged reprint of the Paris 1934 edition)
  • Jean Tulard (Ed.): Dictionnaire Napoléon . Fayard, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-213-60485-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joseph Bonaparte was married to her sister, Julie Clary .
  2. ↑ Whether it is really Pope Pius VI's Swiss Guard . was, is an open question.
personal data
SURNAME Duphot, Leonard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Duphot, Léonard Mathurin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French poet and general
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1769
PLACE OF BIRTH Lyon
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1797
Place of death Rome