Bon-Adrien-Jeannot de Moncey
Bon -Adrien Jeannot de - Moncey, Duke of Conegliano ( born July 31, 1754 Moncey at Besançon, † April 20, 1842, Paris) was a French general and Marshal of France.
Biography
Moncey, son of a Parlementsadvokaten occurred in 1769 in the army and in 1789 Captain ( Hauptmann ). After 1793, he led a command in the Army of the Eastern Pyrenees, he was in 1794 " General de Brigade " ( Brigadier General ), soon after General de division ( Division General ), and after he conquered Fuenterrabia, San Sebastián Tolosa and October 17, 1794 the had erfochten victory of Villanova, he forced Spain to the 1795 armistice of San Sebastián and the Peace of Basel. In September 1796, he was given command of the 11e and 1799 by the First Consul, whom he had supported in the coup of 18 Brumaire which the 15eDivision in Lyon. In the campaign of 1800 he led a corps of 20,000 men over the St. Gotthard Pass, fought with distinction at Marengo and defeated the Austrians at Monzambano and Roveredo.
After the Peace of Luneville in 1801, he was appointed " Inspecteur de police ", appointed in 1804 to the Marshal of France, and in 1805 the Duke of Conegliano. In 1808 he moved to a corps in Spain, mauled the insurgents of Valencia at the pass of Almanza in 1808 and took part in the first siege of Saragossa failed and in 1809 the second attempt successful conquest of Saragossa. As an opponent of the policy of conquest Napoleon he received from this in the campaigns of 1812 and 1813 only the inspection of the Reservekadres transferred. In January 1814, he was appointed "Major - général " ( Major General ) and deputy commander of the National Guard in Paris on 30 March and helped the city to defend. After the abdication of the Emperor, he was of Louis XVIII. raised to the pair, but lost because of his refusal to former comrades- Michel Ney to judge this dignity in 1815 and received it again until 1819. In 1820 he was appointed commander of the 9th Division; In 1823 he commanded the 4e Corps in Spain, with which he conquered Catalonia. After his return he belonged to the July Revolution in the Chambre des Pairs for moderate opposition. Louis -Philippe in 1833 appointed him governor of the Invalides. In 1840 he took the remains of the great Emperor Napoleon in reception and let them be buried in the Invalides in Paris. Among the generals of the First Empire, he was distinguished by his noble and temperate character. He died on 20 April 1842. The title Duke of Conegliano was passed on to his son, Alphonse Auguste Duchesne, Baron Gillevoisin, Marquis de Conegliano, 2e duc de Conegliano, ( 1791-1878 ).
Honors
His name is inscribed on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris in the 33 column. On the Place de Clichy a monument to him was erected.