Raymond Pierre Penne

Raymond Pierre Penne (born November 18, 1770 in Coarraze , Département Pyrénées-Atlantiques , † June 19, 1815 near Bierges , Belgium ) was a French infantry general .

Live and act

On August 23, 1788, Penne joined the army as a volunteer . He was stationed as a dragoon in Paris and finished this service in 1790.

In the Armée de Sambre-et-Meuse he was soon able to distinguish himself: Lieutenant (September 3, 1792) and Capitaine (November 24, 1793). After a few transfers, Penne took part in various military campaigns in Germany, Austria and Italy.

With effect from August 6, 1811, Napoleon appointed Penne général de brigade and brought him to the General Staff on the occasion of his invasion of Russia .

At the end of August 1813, Penne was wounded in a battle and was able to return to France. After his recovery he stayed in Paris, but did not take part in the Battle of Paris (March 30, 1814). After Napoleon's abdication (→ Treaty of Fontainebleau (April 11, 1814)) Penne became a supporter of the Bourbons . He supported King Louis XVIII. but when Napoleon left the island of Elba and his rule of the Hundred Days began, Penne rejoined the emperor.

He got a command under General François Antoine Teste and took part in the battle of Ligny (June 16, 1815), where he was wounded. Three days later, in the battle of Wavre (June 18-19, 1815) he was killed near Bierges.

Honors

• March 25, 1804 Knight of the Legion of Honor
• July 27, 1809 Officer of the Legion of Honor
• 1810 Ordre de la Couronne de fer
• August 15, 1810 baron de l'émpire
• July 18, 1813 Commander of the Legion of Honor
• August 20, 1814 Knight of the Ordre royal et militaire de Saint-Louis
• His name can be found on the north pillar (2nd column) of the triumphal arch on Place Charles de Gaulle ( Paris )

literature

• Karl Bleibtreu : Marshals, Generals, Soldiers of Napoleon I. VRZ-Verlag, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-931482-63-4 (unchanged reprint of the Berlin 1899 edition)
• David G. Chandler : The campaigns of Napoleon . Weidenfeld, London 1993, ISBN 0-297-81367-6 (unchanged reprint of the London 1966 edition).
• Charles Mullié: Biographie des célébrités militaires des terre et de mer de 1789 à 1850, Vol. 2 . Poignavant, Paris 1852.
• 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 (unchanged reprint of the Paris 1934 edition)
• Digby Smith : The Greenhill Napoleonic Wars data book . Greenhill Books, London 1998, ISBN 1-85367-276-9 .

Web links

• Raymond Pierre Penne at arcdetriomph.info