Pierre-Charles Lochet
Pierre-Charles Lochet (born February 24, 1767 in Châlons-sur-Marne , † February 8, 1807 at Preußisch Eylau ) was a French general de brigade of the infantry .
Life
In 1784, at the age of seventeen, Lochet entered the royal army as a cadet . When the revolution broke out , he left the army. He first joined the revolutionaries, later Napoleon Bonaparte and joined the Grande Armée .
Lochet quickly made a career under the emperor and was already général de brigade in 1803. He fought he u. a. near Austerlitz (December 2, 1805) and Jena (October 14, 1806).
He fell in the Battle of Preussisch Eylau (February 7/9, 1807) and was buried there next to General Louis-François Binot, who was killed on the same day .
Honors
- His hometown honored him with a monument in the form of an obelisk on the Cimtière de l'Est
- His name can be found on the north pillar (10th column) of the triumphal arch on Place Charles-de-Gaulle (Paris).
literature
- Jean-Paul Barbier: Des Châlonnais célèbres, illustres et mémorables. Biography châlonnaise . Édition du Petit Catalaunien, Châlonnais-en-Champagne 2000, ISBN 2-9509546-1-8 .
- Kevin F. Kiley: Once there were titans. Napoleon's generals and their battles 1800–1815 . Greenhill, London 2007, ISBN 978-1-85367-710-6 .
- Charles Mullié: Biography of the célébrités militaires des armées de terre et de mer de 1789 à 1850 . Poignavant, Paris 1851 (2 vols.).
- Georges Six: Dictionnaire biographique des généraux & 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).
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| SURNAME | Lochet, Pierre-Charles |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French Brigadier General of the Infantry |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 24, 1767 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Châlons-sur-Marne |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 8, 1807 |
| Place of death | at Preussisch Eylau |