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Louis-Auguste-Victor, count de Ghaisnes de Bourmont
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Born September 2, 1773 • France
Died October 27, 1846 (aged 73) • France
Political Affiliation Legitimist
Role In Wars of the Vendée
Victor Moreau
Victor Moreau
French general
Hoche, etching, after a portrait by J. Duplessi-Bertaux
Lazare Hoche
French general
Charles Pichegru, engraving, 1895.
Charles Pichegru
French general
Jean-Baptiste Kléber
Jean-Baptiste Kléber
French general
François-Séverin Marceau
French general
Philippe-Emmanuel Gondi
French military commander
Bernard-Louis, marquis de Chauvelin
French general and diplomat
Jacques-Louis David: The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries
Napoleon I
emperor of France
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres: painting of Joan of Arc
St. Joan of Arc
French heroine
Charles de Gaulle
Charles de Gaulle
president of France
Napoleon III
Napoleon III
emperor of France
Henry IV, undated copperplate engraving.
Henry IV
king of France
Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti
Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
French politician and orator
Francis I
Francis I
king of France
Turenne, Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, vicomte de
Henri de La Tour d’Auvergne, vicomte de Turenne
French military leader
Fredrik Westin: portrait of Charles XIV John
Charles XIV John
king of Sweden and Norway
Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban
Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban
French military engineer
Lazare Carnot, lithograph by Ambroise Tardieu, after an engraving by C.A. Forestier
Lazare Carnot
French military engineer
The Great Condé, engraving by Robert Nanteuil, 1662
Louis II de Bourbon, 4 prince de Condé
French general and prince
Ney, Michel
Michel Ney
French duke