Jean-Antoine Marbot

Jean-Antoine Marbot
General Jean-Antoine Marbot
Born	(1754-12-07)7 December 1754 Altillac (Corrèze), Kingdom of France
Died	19 April 1800(1800-04-19) (aged 45) Genoa, Italy
Allegiance	Kingdom of France Kingdom of France  French First Republic
Rank	Général de Division
Battles/wars	French Revolutionary Wars War of the Pyrenées Siege of Genoa
Awards	Name engraved on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris
Relations	Marie-Louise Dupuy de Certain (spouse) Antoine Adolphe Marcelin Marbot (son) Jean-Baptiste Antoine Marcellin Marbot (son)
Other work	President of the Council of Ancients Deputy of Corrèze Military Governor of Paris

Jean-Antoine Marbot (7 December 1754 - 19 April 1800) was a French general and politician.

Biography

Jean-Antoine Marbot

His military career began in the prestigious regiment of the Royal Gardes du Corps during the reign of King Louis XV, where he attained the rank of Captain of the dragoons and served as aide-de-camp to Count Schomberg.

Leaving the army at the beginning of the Revolution, he was elected administrator of the department of Corrèze in 1790 and then deputy of this department in the Legislative Assembly on 3 September 1791 with 206 votes out of 361, where he sat in the majority.

Taking up service, he was promoted Brigadier General on 30 August 1793. He fought in Cerdanya in Spain, before joining the Army of the Western Pyrenées (French: Armée des Pyrénées occidentales), where he remained in 1794 and 1795 as Division General.

He was elected Deputy of Corrèze in the Council of the Ancients, the upper house of French legislature during the French First Republic on 23 Vendémiaire, Year IV, with 121 votes out of 236. He opposed the Royalists gathered around the Club de Clichy and approved the coup d'état of 18 Fructidor, Year V. He was elected President of the Council of Ancients twice, before being appointed as the Military Governor of Paris in 1799, commanding the 17th Military Division.

He was one of the Commanders of the Army of Italy (French: Armée d'Italie), which he joined shortly before the coup d'état of 18 Brumaire. He was wounded during the siege of Genoa and died a result of his wounds and of typhus.

Tribute

The name of General Jean-Antoine Marbot on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris

The name of General Jean-Antoine Marbot is among the 660 names engraved on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris (western pillar, 34th column).

Family

General Jean-Antoine Marbot

On 3 October 1775, he married Marie-Louise Dupuy de Certain, with whom he had four sons:

• Antoine Adolphe Marcelin, known as Adolphe Marbot (1781-1844): French general
• Jean-Baptiste Antoine Marcellin, known as Marcellin Marbot (1782-1854): French general
• Jean François Théodore Xavier, known as Théodore Marbot (1785-1803): Died at the Prytanée National Militaire from a hydrocution
• Jean Jacques Édouard Félix, known as Félix Marbot (1787-1805): Died at the École Spéciale Impériale Militaire from a septic infection after a duel

See also

• Presidents of the Council of Ancients
• Military governors of Paris
• French generals of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
• Commanders of the Armée d'Italie
• Generals of the Armée des Pyrénées occidentales
• Names inscribed on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris
• Marbot family

Sources

• (in French) Adolphe Robert, Gaston Cougny, Dictionary of French Parliamentarians from 1789 to 1889, Paris, Bourloton, 1889, Volume 4, , pp. 251 - 260.

External links

• Liste des ministres et présidents d'assemblées français de 1700 à 1870
• (in French) Les noms des 660 personnes inscrites sur l’Arc de Triomphe

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