Guillaume Emmanuel Guignard, vicomte de Saint-Priest
Guillaume Emmanuel Guignard, vicomte de Saint -Priest (Russian Эммануил Францевич Сен - При ); ( Born March 4, 1776 in Constantine Opel, † March 29, 1814 in Laon ), was a French general in the Russian service, who served in the Napoleonic Wars of Alexander I. (Russian Tsar from 1801 to 1825 ).
Origin
He was the eldest son of the French diplomats and State Minister François Emmanuel Guignard, comte de Saint -Priest of Saint-Priest near Lyon, one of the French King Louis XVI 's closest confidant and last.
While his father was the ambassador of the French king to the Sublime Porte in Constantinople Opel, Saint -Priest was born there. 1795 was forced to emigrate his father during the revolutionary turmoil with the whole family from France. Saint -Priest studied at the University of Heidelberg; later he entered the service of the Imperial Russian Army.
Military service
He distinguished himself at the Battle of Austerlitz (2 December 1805), was wounded in 1807 Prussian Eylau and promoted to lieutenant general during the Napoleonic Russian campaign in 1812 on October 21. In 1813 he distinguished himself at Lobau and Bischofswerda, 1814 at the siege of Koblenz and Mainz. In Koblenz, Saint -Priest showed humor, as on Kastorbrunnen, which should remind you of the victorious Russian campaign Napoleon actually make a further inscription was ( more details here ) he.
In the battle against Reims on 13 March 1814, he was severely wounded and died in Laon 16 days later. He was buried in the cathedral of Laon. The French royalists erected a monument to him in Laon; this was destroyed during the July Revolution of 1830.
Swell
- Archives généalogiques et historiques de la noblesse de France. S. 22 - Louis Lainé - 1844
- Military person (Russian Empire )
- Person in the Napoleonic Wars (Russian Empire )
- Emigrant
- Viscount (France)
- Frenchman
- Born in 1776
- Died in 1814
- Man