Pierre Augustin Hullin

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Pierre Augustin Hullin (also Hulin ; born September 6, 1758 in Geneva , † January 9, 1841 in Paris ) was a French general .

Hullin came to Paris as an apprentice watchmaker and took part in the storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789 . In 1794 he joined the army and in 1796 became adjutant general to Napoleon Bonapartes . From 1797 to 1798 he was in command of Milan . He supported Napoleon in his coup d'état on November 9th, 1799 ( 18th Brumaire ) and in 1804 became général de brigade and commander of the consular guard . Hullin chaired the military commission that sentenced the Duke of Enghien to death on March 21, 1804 . In December 1804 he married Marie Jeanne-Louise Tiersonnier .

In 1806 Hullin was the commandant of Berlin . In 1807 he was promoted to Général de division and in 1808 appointed count . In 1812 he became governor of Paris when General Malet spread the rumor of the emperor's death and tried to initiate an uprising . Hullin suppressed these tendencies and in March 1814 accompanied the Empress Marie-Louise from Austria to Blois , but then submitted to King Louis XVIII.

During the 100 days of Napoleon's return he was again governor of Paris, but was expelled from the country after the return of the Bourbons , the ancestral French rulers. Only in 1819 did he get permission to return.