Jean Baptiste Antoine Marcellin de Marbot

Jean -Baptiste Antoine Marcellin de marbot ( born August 18, 1782 Altillac, † November 16, 1854 in Paris), Baron de Marbot, was a French general.

His father was General Jean -Antoine marbot ( 1754-1800 ). His older brother Antoine Adolphe Marcelin marbot (1781-1844) was also a general.

Life

He joined in 1799 as a volunteer of the Republican army and was soon promoted to officer. Afterwards he was adjutant of Marshal Augereau. As such, he participated in the 4th Coalition War ( 1806-1807 ) part. In the years 1808-1811 he was employed in the war on the Iberian Peninsula. Other merits he earned during the Russian campaign in 1812. During the reign of the Hundred Days in 1814, he was promoted to brigadier general of Napoleon Bonaparte and participated in the Battle of Waterloo. At the beginning of the Second Restoration, he had to go into exile and was able to return to France until 1819. His close acquaintance with Louis -Philippe, Duke of Orléans secured him important military positions. During the July monarchy (from 1830), he was soon promoted to Field Marshal, 1836, then to lieutenant general. In 1845 he was appointed a peer of France. Three years later, he retired after the fall of Louis Philippe returned to private life.

Work

Marbot wrote two pamphlets Remarques critiques sur Vouwage de M. le general Roguet, intitule Considerations sur l'art de la guerre (1820 ) and La nécéssité d' augmenter les forces militaires de la France (1825 ). His fame rests, however, on his 1891 memoirs published in France Les mémoires du Général Baron de marbot which for the first time in 1899 in German and 1902 templates in English.

Like no other he granted there an insight into the military system of the Napoleonic period. In his letter to his wife and children preface he writes: "I am often come into personal contact with Napoleon, I have the general staff of five of his most famous marshals: Bernadotte, Augereau, Murat, Lannes and Masséna done aide services, and I have all of the best people in the known at that time it will be my endeavor more to let in my memories personally experienced real than to describe historical events, . particular but I will endeavor that is not always fair judgment on those men to be corrected, I came closer 'm. Besides facts of great political importance, I will have occasion to tell cheerful and adventurous incidents and carry forward all so simple, as befits dedicated for one of their own family story. "