Pierre-Augustin Hulin

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

Hullin came as a watchmaker apprentice to Paris and participated in the July 14, 1789 at the storming of the Bastille. In 1794 he joined the army and in 1796 Adjutant General Napoleon Bonaparte. From 1797-98 he was commander of Milan. He supported Napoleon in the coup on November 9, 1799 ( 18 Brumaire) and in 1804 became brigadier general and commander of the Consular Guard. Hullin chaired the Military Commission, which condemned the Duke of Enghien to death.

1806 Hullin was commander of Berlin. In 1807 he was promoted to major general in 1808 and appointed to the Count. In 1812 he became governor of Paris, General Malet as the rumor scattered by the death of the Emperor and tried to initiate a rebellion. Hullin suppressed these tendencies and accompanied in March 1814, the Empress Marie -Louise of Austria to Blois, but then surrendered to King Louis XVIII.

During the 100 days of Napoleon's return he was governor of Paris again, but was banished to the return of the Bourbons, the ancestral French dynasty, the country. In 1819, he received permission to return again.

• Military person (France )
• Person in the coalition wars (France)
• Person in the French Revolution
• Frenchman
• Born in 1758
• Died in 1841