Guillaume Dode de la Brunerie

Vicomte Guillaume Dode de la Brunerie ( born April 30, 1775 in Saint Geoire, Department Isère, † February 28, 1851 in Paris) was a Marshal of France.

Dode de la Brunerie left school in 1795, the genius Metz and took part in the wars of the Republic and the Empire to almost all European theaters of war as well as in Egypt. He repeatedly led larger fortification works and excelled particularly in Spain at the sieges of Zaragoza, Badajoz. In 1813 he became the general of division, the defense of Glogau, he only after the preliminaries of peace had been concluded on the orders of King Louis XVIII. Command handed. When Napoleon returned from Elba in 1815 to France, Dode de la Brunerie not entered into his service.

In 1823 he accompanied the French army on-coming to Spain as head of the Genie system and after his return published the work Précis of opérations contre Cadiz in 1823 (Paris 1824). Since September 1, 1840 Dode de la Brunerie was entrusted with the upper line of attachment of Paris and performed this task to end. Even before he was appointed head of the fastening Committee.

Dode de la Brunerie was the first since Vauban emerged from the genius Force Marshal of France. He died in retirement on 28 February 1851 in Paris.

Honors

His name is inscribed on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris in the 22 column ( DODE ).