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Also Known As Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Count d’Erlon
Born July 29, 1765 • Reims • France
Died January 25, 1844 (aged 78) • Paris • France
Title / Office governor-general (1834-1843), Algeria
Role In Napoleonic Wars
Clauzel, lithograph by A.-L. Lemercier after a portrait by A. Maurin
Bertrand, Count Clauzel
marshal of France
Jacques-Louis David: The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries
Napoleon I
emperor of France
Charles de Gaulle
Charles de Gaulle
president of France
Fredrik Westin: portrait of Charles XIV John
Charles XIV John
king of Sweden and Norway
Joachim Murat
Joachim Murat
king of Naples
Thomas-Alexandre Dumas
Thomas-Alexandre Dumas
French general [1762–1806]
Dominique-René Vandamme, count of Unebourg
French general
Henri, baron de Jomini
Henri, baron de Jomini
French general and historian
Louis-Nicolas Davout, duc d'Auerstedt
Louis-Nicolas Davout, duke of Auerstedt
French general
Jacques Macdonald, duc de Tarente.
Jacques Macdonald, duke de Tarente
French general
Charles-Denis-Sauter Bourbaki
French general
François-Joseph Lefebvre, duke de Dantzig
French general
Claude Victor-Perrin, duke de Bellune
French general
Armand, marquis de Caulaincourt
French general
Nicolas-Jean de Dieu Soult, duke de Dalmatie
French military leader
Louis-Alexandre Berthier
Louis-Alexandre Berthier, prince de Wagram
marshal of France
Raoul Salan
French general
Thomas-Robert Bugeaud, duke d’Isly
marshal of France
Duroc, portrait by Jacques-Louis David; in the Musée Léon Bonnat, Bayonne, Fr.
Géraud-Christophe-Michel Duroc, duke de Frioul
French general
Édouard-Adolphe-Casimir-Joseph Mortier, duke de Trevise
French general