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Names inscribed on the Arc de Triomphe

  • Joachim MuratJoachim Murat, born on the 25th of March 1767 in a small town in southwestern France, died facing a firing squad on the 13th of October 1815 in Pizzo Calabro.
  • Auguste de MarmontAuguste Frédéric Louis Viesse de Marmont was a man the French came to despise, not for losing battles, but for ending one.
  • Charles XIV JohnCharles XIV John of Sweden was born Jean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte on the 26th of January 1763 in Pau, a small city in the southwestern province of Béarn.
  • Jean-Baptiste KléberJean-Baptiste Kléber was stabbed four times in a garden in Cairo on the 14th of June 1800 by a theology student who had pretended to beg from him.
  • Louis Philippe ILouis Philippe I stepped onto the throne of France in August 1830 having already lived more lives than most kings ever get.
  • Charles Leclerc (general, born 1772)On the 14th of December 1801, Charles Victoire Emmanuel Leclerc sailed out of Brest at the head of a fleet carrying 40,000 troops, bound for the Caribbean…
  • Charles-Pierre AugereauCharles-Pierre-François Augereau was born on the 21st of October 1757 in Faubourg Saint-Marceau, Paris, the son of a fruit seller.
  • Michel NeyMichel Ney stood before a firing squad in Paris on the 7th of December 1815 and refused to wear a blindfold. His reason was simple and devastating: he had…
  • Jean Victor Marie MoreauJean Victor Marie Moreau was born on the 14th of February 1763 in Morlaix, Brittany, and died on the 2nd of September 1813 in Louny, in one of history's…
  • Józef PoniatowskiJózef Poniatowski spent more than three decades in uniform, fighting under three different flags before his life ended in a chaotic retreat in Germany.