Marie Etienne de Barbot

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Marie Etienne de Barbot

Marie Étienne de Barbot (born April 2, 1770 in Toulouse , † February 16, 1839 ibid) was a French Général de division . On June 3, 1816 he was given by King Louis XVIII. bestowed the title of lieutenant-général .

Life

Barbot was a son of the lawyer Pierre Barbot, Lieutenant des Sénéchal and representative of Toulouse and his second wife Antoinette de Chamouin. From 1781 he attended the military academy in Sorèze . He was an avid supporter of the revolution and became part of Napoleon's early on .

He began his military career as a sous-lieutenant and then captain of the Grenadiers of the National Guard of Toulouse . In 1791 he was promoted to captain in a battalion of the "Volontaires de la Haute-Garonne " and in 1791 to lieutenant colonel . In 1792 he took part in the campaign to Savoy and in 1791 in the siege of Toulon .

Then he was assigned to the "Armée des Pyrénées Orientales" and took part in the campaign to Spain. He fought in the skirmish at Boulou, in the siege of Fort Saint-Elmo, in the battle of Montagne Noire (1794) and the siege of Rosas. His skills earned him promotion to Chef de brigade in the same year .

After the Treaty of Basel (June 20, 1795) Barbot was able to return to France. At home he married Elisabeth, a daughter of the lawyer Joseph d'Aubian and his wife Jeanne Duclos de Laas. They had five children: Adèle (* 1796), Émile (* 1797), Théophile (* 1799), Nathalie (* 1808) and Louise (* 1816).

As chief of staff, Barbot was assigned to the Western Army in 1795 and fought in the Vendée uprising .

In 1804 he came to the Antilles as Chief of Staff of Général Joseph Lagrange .

From 1808 he fought in the Napoleonic Wars on the Iberian Peninsula . He was at the Battle of Medina de Rioseco (June 14, 1808), the Battle of Burgos (November 10, 1808), the Battle of La Coruña (January 16, 1809), the Battle of Braga (March 20, 1809) and the First Battle of Oporto (March 29, 1809) involved.

Barbot fought in the Battle of Buçaco lost for France (September 27, 1810), in the Battle of Sabugal (April 3, 1811) lost for France , in the failed siege of Almeida (May 16, 1811) and in the one lost for France Battle of Salamanca (July 22, 1812).

Under the leadership of Maréchal Nicolas Jean-de-Dieu Soult , he returned to France and fought in 1814 in the Battle of Orthez (February 27) and the Battle of Toulouse (April 10).

After the Battle of Waterloo (June 18, 1815), Barbot retired from active service and until 1835 took on more military-administrative tasks than Lieutenent-général. That year he officially retired. He died in his hometown six weeks before his 69th birthday on February 16, 1839, and found his final resting place in the Terre-Cabade cemetery. He is buried in a mausoleum , which the sculptor Bernard Griffoul-Dorval (1788–1861) decorated.

Honors

Name Barbots in the 35th column of the triumphal arch

literature

  • David G. Chandler : The campaigns of Napoleon . Weidenfeld, London 1993, ISBN 0-297-81367-6 . (Reprinted from the London 1966 edition).
  • Henri Geschwind: Deux généraux toulousains, Darmagnac and Barbot. L'insurrection royaliste de la région toulousaine en l'an VII . Toulouse 1914.
  • Charles Mullié: Biography of the célébrités militaires des armées de terre et de mer de 1789 à 1850 . Poignavant, Paris 1851 (2 vols.).
  • Stephen Pope: The Cassell Dictionary of the Napoleonic Wars . Cassell, London 1999, ISBN 0-304-35229-2 .
personal data
SURNAME Barbot, Marie Étienne de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French lieutenant-général
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1770
PLACE OF BIRTH Toulouse
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1839
Place of death Toulouse