Philippe Higonet

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Philippe Higonet (* 1782 in Saint-Geniez-d'Olt ; † 1859 ) was a French colonel.

Life

Higonet is a son of the pharmacist Joseph Higonet and his wife Marie Massabeau; Colonel Joseph Higonet is his older brother.

In 1804, Higonet volunteered for the army. Under the orders of Marshal Louis-Nicolas Davout , Higonet quickly made a career; with the rank of major he fought in the battle of Jena and Auerstedt (October 14, 1806). He also fought at Preussisch Eylau (February 7/8, 1807) and Eggmühl (April 22, 1809); he was wounded in the latter.

After his recovery, Higonet was promoted again and transferred to the Guard impériale . With his own command, he took part in Napoleon's Russian campaign in 1812 and later helped to besiege the city of Hamburg (→ Hamburger Franzosenzeit ).

Higonet fought at Ligny (June 16, 1815) and Waterloo (June 18, 1815). After Napoleon's abdication, Higonet turned to the House of Bourbon and supported King Louis XVIII.

He volunteered for the invasion army, which the Holy Alliance set up in 1823 (→ French invasion of Spain ). Under the leadership of the Duc d'Angoulême , an invasion army was supposed to put down the revolution (→ Trienio Liberal ) and to restore absolutism to its right. After the Battle of Trocadero (August 31, 1823), Higonet was promoted to Maréchal de camp for his bravery .

In 1828 King Charles X sent his war minister Nicolas-Joseph Maison to Greece at the head of an army (→ Morea expedition ). Together with a broad alliance, France supported the Greek people in their efforts for independence (→ Greek Revolution ) and Higonet fought in the Peloponnese a. a. at Navarino (October 20, 1827) against the Ottoman Empire .

In 1833 Higonet came back to France. As a member of parliament, he supported King Charles X and could never make friends with Louis-Philippe I, who came to power through the July Revolution of 1830 . When after the February Revolution of 1848 the Second Republic with Napoleon III. had established, he supported it, as he considered it his duty as a member of parliament. However, he did not take part in his coup d'état of December 2, 1851 and withdrew from public life.

Honors

literature

  • Karl Bleibtreu : Marshals, generals, soldiers of Napoleon I. VRZ-Verlag, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-931482-63-4 (reprint of the Berlin 1899 edition).
  • David Chandler: The campaigns of Napoleon . Weidenfeld, London 1993, ISBN 0-297-81367-6 (reprint of the London 1966 edition).
  • Philip J. Haythornthwaite: Who Was Who in Napoleonic Wars . Arms & Armor, London 1998, ISBN 1-85409-391-6 .
  • Charles Mullié: Biography of the célébrités militaires des armées de terre et de mer de 1789 à 1850 . Poignavant, Paris 1851 (2 vols.).
  • Adolphe Robert, Gaston Cougny: Dictionnaire des parlementaires français, Vol. 3 . Slatkine, Geneva 2000, ISBN 2-05-101711-5 (reprint of the Paris edition 1889/91).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ s. a. The eighteenth Brumaire by Louis Bonaparte , a work by Karl Marx .
personal data
SURNAME Higonet, Philippe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French colonel
DATE OF BIRTH 1782
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Geniez-d'Olt
DATE OF DEATH 1859