Curated category
Names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe
- Louis BonaparteLouis Bonaparte entered the world on the 2nd of September 1778 in Ajaccio, Corsica. This island had been conquered by France less than a decade before his…
- Auguste de MarmontAuguste Frédéric Louis Viesse de Marmont was born on the 20th of July 1774 in Châtillon-sur-Seine. His father served as an ex-officer within the petite…
- Jérôme BonaparteJérôme Bonaparte was born in Ajaccio, Corsica on the 15th of November 1784. He was the eighth and last surviving child of Carlo Buonaparte and Letizia…
- Joachim MuratJoachim Murat was born on the 25th of March 1767 in La Bastide-Fortunière, a small village in southwestern France. His father Pierre Murat-Jordy worked as an…
- Pierre-Charles VilleneuvePierre-Charles Villeneuve was born on the 31st of December 1763 at Valensole, Provence. He joined the French Navy in 1779 during a time of great upheaval.
- Jean-Baptiste KléberJean-Baptiste Kléber was born on the 9th of March 1753 in Strasbourg, where his father worked as a master builder. This humble origin shaped the early…
- Jean-Andoche JunotJean-Andoche Junot was born on the 25th of September 1771 in Bussy-le-Grand, Burgundy. He entered a bourgeois family as the fifth son of Michel Junot and…
- Charles XIV JohnJean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte was born on the 26th of January 1763 in Pau, the capital of Béarn. He entered the army as a private soldier on the 3rd of…
- Charles-Pierre AugereauCharles-Pierre Augereau was born in the Faubourg Saint-Marceau district of Paris on the 21st of October 1757. His father worked as a fruit seller, though…
- Charles Leclerc (general, born 1772)Charles Leclerc was born on the 17th of March 1772 in Pontoise, Île-de-France. He volunteered to join the French Royal Army in 1791 as a second lieutenant.
- Louis DesaixLouis Charles Antoine Desaix de Veygoux entered the world on the 17th of August 1768 inside the Château d'Ayat. His father Gilbert des Aix held the title…
- Louis Philippe ILouis Philippe was born in the Palais-Royal on the 6th of October 1773. He grew up as a Prince of the Blood within the House of Bourbon.
- Jean Victor Marie MoreauJean Victor Marie Moreau was born at Morlaix in Brittany on the 14th of February 1763. His father was a successful lawyer who insisted that his son study law…
- Józef PoniatowskiPrince Józef Antoni Poniatowski entered the world on the 7th of May 1763 inside Vienna's Palais Kinsky. His mother Countess Maria Theresia Kinsky von…
- Michel NeyMichel Ney was born in the town of Sarrelouis on the 10th of January 1769. He grew up as the second son of Pierre Ney, a master cooper who had served in the…