Marcellin Marbot

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Marcellin Marbot in 1815

Jean-Baptiste Antoine Marcelin Marbot , known as Marcellin Marbot (pronunciation: [maʁsølɛ̃ maʁbo] ; * August 18, 1782 in Altillac , † November 16, 1854 in Paris ), was a French lieutenant-général (division general). His father was General Jean-Antoine Marbot (1754-1800). His older brother Adolphe Marbot (1781-1844) was also a general.

Life

Colonel Marbot in 1812

Marbot volunteered in the French army during the reign of Napoléon Bonaparte in 1799 and was quickly promoted to officer. He was an adjutant to Marshal Augereau . As such he took part in the 4th coalition war (1806-1807). From 1808 to 1811 he was used in the war on the Pyrenees Peninsula. He earned merits during the Russian campaign in 1812. During the rule of the Hundred Days in 1814, he was promoted to Brigadier General by Napoléon and took part in the Battle of Waterloo .

With the beginning of the second restoration period he had to go into exile and was only able to return to France in 1819. His close acquaintance with Louis-Philippe , the Duke of Orléans, secured important military positions for him. During the reign of Louis-Philip from 1830 he was promoted to maréchal de camp (brigadier general), in 1836 to lieutenant-général (divisional general). In 1845 he was appointed peer of France . Three years later he retired into private life after the fall of Louis Philippe.

memoirs

Statue of General Marbot in Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne

Marbot wrote two pamphlets, Remarques critiques sur l'ouvrage de M. le lieutenant-général Rogniat, intitulé: Considérations sur l'art de la guerre (1820) and De la nécessité d'augmenter les forces militaires de la France; moyen de le faire au meilleur marché possible (1825). His fame, however, is based on his memoirs Mémoires du Général Baron de Marbot , first published in France in 1891 and first available in German in 1899. In it he gives an insight into the military system of the Napoleonic era. In his preface addressed to his wife and children, he writes:

“I often came into personal contact with Napoleon; I have served as adjutants on the general staff of five of his most famous marshals: Bernadotte , Augereau , Murat , Lannes and Masséna ; I knew all the outstanding people of the time. It will be my endeavor to let my personal experiences emerge in my memories rather than to describe the historical events; in particular, however, I will endeavor to correct the not always just judgment of those men whom I have approached. In addition to facts of great political importance, I will have reason to relate cheerful and adventurous incidents and to present everything as simply as it should be for a story devoted to my own family. "

Honors

Trivia

Marcellin Marbot appears as a literary figure in The magical labyrinth from the river world cycle by the writer and science fiction author Philip José Farmer .

literature

  • Alphonse Rabbe, Claude-Augustin Vieilh de Boisjolin, François de Sainte-Preuve: Marbot, Jean Baptiste Antoine Marcelin . In: Biography 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, p. 453.
  • Hugh Chisholm: Marbot, Jean Baptiste Antoine Marcelin . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . Volume 17, Cambridge University Press 1911, p. 680.
  • Mémoires de Général Baron de Marbot . Plon, Paris 1892.
    • German translation: Memoirs of the French General Marcellin de Marbot . VRZ-Verlag, Hamburg 1999 (reprint of the Stuttgart 1899 edition).
    1. Genoa, Austerlitz, Jena, Eylau . 1999, ISBN 3-931482-60-X .
    2. Madrid, Aspern, Torres Vedras . 1999, ISBN 3-931482-61-8 .
    3. Polotsk, Beresina, Leipzig, Waterloo . 1999, ISBN 3-931482-62-6 .

Web links

Commons : Marcellin Marbot  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Marcelin" is spelled with an "l" in Marbot's birth certificate and official documents: Marbot, Jean-Baptiste Antoine Marcelin (LH / 1723/47 ) - Archives nationales, Paris.
  2. ↑ "Marcellin" is spelled with two "ls" in certain military documents and this is the spelling used by Marbot. He is sometimes referred to as "Jean-Baptiste Marbot".
  3. ↑ http://www.armin-moehle.de/Artikel/36MillionenLebennachdemTod.htm
personal data
SURNAME Marbot, Marcellin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marbot, Jean-Baptiste Antoine Marcelin; Marbot, Marcellin de; Marbot, Jean-Baptiste Antoine Marcellin de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French general
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1782
PLACE OF BIRTH Altillac
DATE OF DEATH November 16, 1854
Place of death Paris