Victor de Fay de La Tour-Maubourg

Marie Victor Nicolas de Fay de Latour- Maubourg ( May 22nd 1768 in La Motte- de -Galaure, Drome, † November 11, 1850 in Dammarie- les- Lys, Seine- et- Marne) was a French general.

Victor de La Tour Maubourg, brother of Charles César de Fay de La Tour- Maubourg, stood at the outbreak of the Revolution as a lieutenant in the Garde du Corps and rescued on 6 October 1789, the Queen Marie Antoinette 's life.

In the campaign of 1792 he commanded as Colonel Chasseur à Cheval under 3.Regiment the Marquis de La Fayette and stepped over to the latter, like his brother, to Austrian territory. Here he was arrested by the Austrians, but released after a month. It was not until 1797 he returned to France and took part as adjutant Jean -Baptiste adhesive in the expedition to Egypt.

In the battle of Austerlitz Napoleon I. raised him to brigadier general; Latour- Maubourg challenged on this in the campaign against Prussia and Russia, in command of the cavalry in 1808 in Spain and was distinguished among others, Cuenca and Badajoz.

He also fought as a general of division in the campaigns of 1812 and 1813, especially in Dresden and Leipzig, where he lost a leg.

During the first restoration he was appointed to the reorganization of the army set down Commission levied a peer, sent in 1817 as ambassador to Great Britain; 19 November 1819 he was Minister of War from 1822 to 1830 and governor of the Invalides, whereupon he retired to his estate Melun to 14 December 1821. The King Charles X in 1830, following in exile in Prague, he became in 1835 the governor of Henri d' Artois, comte de Chambord, the Duke of Bordeaux, was appointed.

Honors

His name is inscribed on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris in the 17th column ( LTr MAUBOURG ).