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See also:BOURMONT, See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
LOUIS AUGUSTE See also:VICTOR, See also:COMTE DE GHAISNE
DE (1773-1846), See also:marshal of See also:France, entered the Gardes FranQaises of the royal See also:army shortly before the Revolution, emigrated in
1789, and served with See also:Conde and the army of the emigres in the See also:campaigns of 1792 and 1793, subsequently serving as See also:chief of See also:staff to Scepeaux, the royalist See also:leader, in the See also:civil See also:war in See also:lower See also:Anjou (1794-1496). Bourmont, excepted from the See also:amnesty of See also:April 1796, fled into See also:Switzerland, but soon afterwards, having been made by Louis XVIII. a matgechal de See also:camp and a See also:knight of St Louis, he headed a fresh insurrection, which after some preliminary successes collapsed (1799-1800). He then made his submission to. the First See also:Consul, married, and lived in See also:Paris; but his thinly veiled royalism caused his See also:arrest a few months later, and he remained a prisoner for more than three years, finally escaping to See also:Portugal in 1804. Three years later the See also:French army under See also:General See also:Junot invaded Portugal, and Bourmont offered his. services to Junot, who made him chief of staff of a See also:division. He returned to France with Junot after the See also:convention of See also:Cintra, and was promptly re-arrested. He was soon released, however, on Junot's demand, and was commissioned as an officer in the imperial army. He served in See also:Italy for-a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time, then went on the staff of the See also:viceroy See also:Eugene (See also:Beauharnais), whom he accompanied in the See also:Moscow See also:campaign. He was taken prisoner in the See also:retreat, but escaped after a time and rejoined the French army. His conspicuous courage at the See also:battle of See also:Lutzen in 1813 led. See also:Napoleon to promote him general of See also:brigade, and in 1814 his splendid See also:defence of Nogent (See also:February 13) earned him the See also:rank of general of division. At the first Restoration Bourmont was naturally employed by the Bourbons, to whose service he had devoted his See also:life, but he rejoined Napoleon. on his return from See also:Elba. On the See also:eve of the campaign of 1815, and at the urgent
See also:request of See also:Count See also:Gerard, he was given a divisional command in the army of the See also:north.
On the first See also:day of the See also:Waterloo campaign Bourmont went over to the enemy. It is not probable that he gave See also:information of French movements to the See also:allies, but the best that can be said in exculpation of his treachery is that his old See also:friends and comrades, the royalists of Anjou, were ag,See also:ain in insurrection, and that he See also:felt that he must See also:lead them. He made no See also:attempt to defend his conduct, and acted as the accuser of Marshal See also:Ney. A See also:year later he was given command of a division of the royal guard; and in 1823 he held an important position in the army which, under the command of the duc d'See also:Angouleme, invaded See also:Spain. He commanded the whole army in Spain for a time in 1824, became See also:minister of war in 1829, and in 1830 was placed in command of the See also:Algiers expedition. The landing of the French and the See also:capture of Algiers were directed by him with See also:complete success, and he was rewarded with the See also:baton of marshal But the revolution of 183o put an end to his command, and, refusing to take the See also:oath to Louis Philippe, he was forced to resign. In 1832 Marshal Bourmont took See also:part in the rising of the duchesse de Berri, and on its failure retired to Portugal. Here, as always, on the See also:side of See also:absolutism, he commanded the army of Dom See also:Miguel during the civil war of 1833-1834, and after the victory of the constitutional party he retired to See also:Rome. At the amnesty of 1840 he returned to France. He died at the See also:chateau of Bourmont on the 27th of See also:October 1846.
See also:Charles de Bourmont, a son of the marshal, wrote several See also:pamphlets in vindication of his See also:father's career.
End of Article: BOURMONT, LOUIS AUGUSTE VICTOR, COMTE DE
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