Louis Klein
Louis Klein, actually Dominique Louis Antoine Klein ( born January 29, 1761 Blâmont, department Meurthe -et -Moselle, † November 2, 1845 in Paris) was a French general of division.
Life
His military career began small in the Garde de la porte of King Louis XVI. Klein was not a Royalist and more likely to be seen as a supporter of the revolution. Already on 1 October 1787 he resigned his commission in the Maison militaire du roi de France.
On January 25, 1761 Klein married in his hometown of Marie Agathe Pierron and had a son with her; Édouard Marie Arsène ( 1784-1843 ). On January 12, 1792, he became a lieutenant in the Armée du Nord and made very rapid career. Already in 1795 he held the rank of General in the bar of Michel Ney.
1808 could be classified with the permission of Napoleon divorced and married on July 2 of that year, Louise Caroline d' Arberg de Valanginian ( 1779-1852 ) and had with her a son, Eugène Joseph Napoleon ( 1813-1872 ). His second wife was a maid of the Empress Joséphine de Beauharnais.
1807 Klein was appointed senator and he held this position until April 1814. One of his last acts was his demand for Napoleon's abdication. Since he publicly turned against Napoleon's return and opposed it and against its rule of the Hundred Days, made him during the Restoration Louis XVIII. a peer of France.
At the age of 83 years, Louis Klein died on November 2, 1845 in Paris and found his final resting place.