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DESSAIA, JOSEPH MARIE, COUNT (1764-1834)

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DESSAIA, See also:JOSEPH See also:MARIE, See also:COUNT (1764-1834) , See also:French See also:general, was See also:born at Thonon in See also:Savoy on the 24th of See also:September 1764. He studied See also:medicine, took his degree at See also:Turin, and then went to See also:Paris, where in 1789 he joined the See also:National Guard. In 1791 he tried without success to raise an emeute in Savoy, in 1992 he organized the " See also:Legion of the See also:Allobroges," and in the following years he served at the See also:siege of See also:Toulon, in the See also:Army of the Eastern See also:Pyrenees, and in the Army of See also:Italy. He was captured at Rivoli, but was soon exchanged. In the See also:spring of 1798 Dessaix was elected a member of the See also:Council of Five See also:Hundred. He was one of the few in that See also:body who opposed the coup d'etat of the 18th See also:Brumaire (See also:November 9, 1799). In 1803 he was promoted general of See also:brigade, and soon afterwards See also:commander of the Legion of See also:Honour. He distinguished himself greatly at the See also:battle of See also:Wagram (1809), and was about this See also:time promoted general of See also:division and named See also:grand officer of the Legion of Honour, and in 1810 was made a count. He took See also:part in the expedition to See also:Russia, and was twice wounded. For several months he was commandant of See also:Berlin, and afterwards delivered the See also:department of Mont See also:Blanc from the Austrians. After the first restoration Dessaix held a command under the Bourbons. He nevertheless joined See also:Napoleon in the Hundred Days, and in 1816 he was imprisoned for five months.

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rest of his See also:life was spent in retirement. He died on the 26th of See also:October 1834. See Le General Dessaix, sa See also:vie politique et militaire, by his See also:nephew Joseph Dessaix (Paris, 1879).

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