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DUROC, GERAUD CHRISTOPHE MICHEL

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DUROC, GERAUD CHRISTOPHE See also:MICHEL , duc de Frioul (1772—1813), See also:French See also:general, was See also:born at See also:Pont a Mousson (Meurthe et Moselle) on the 25th of See also:October 1772. The son of an officer, he was educated at the military See also:schools of his native See also:town and of Chalons. He was gazetted second See also:lieutenant. (See also:artillery) in the 4th See also:regiment in 1793, and advanced steadily in the service. See also:Captain Duroc became aide-de-See also:camp to See also:Napoleon See also:ill 1796, and distinguished himself at Isonzo, Brenta and See also:Gradisca in the See also:Italian See also:campaigns of 1796—97. He served in See also:Egypt, and was seriously wounded at See also:Aboukir. His devotion to Napoleon was rewarded by See also:complete confidence. He became first aide-de-camp (1798), general of See also:brigade (1800), and See also:governor of the Tuileries. After the See also:battle of See also:Marengo he was sent on See also:missions to See also:Vienna, St See also:Petersburg, See also:Stockholm and See also:Copenhagen. As See also:grand See also:marshal of the Tuileries he was responsible for the See also:measures taken to secure Napoleon's See also:personal safety whether in See also:France or on his campaigns, and he directed the minutest details of the imperial See also:household. After See also:Austerlitz, where he commanded the grenadiers in the See also:absence of General See also:Oudinot, he was employed in a See also:series of important negotiations with See also:Frederick See also:William of See also:Prussia, with the elector of See also:Saxony (See also:December 1806), in the See also:incorporation of certain states in the See also:Confederation of the See also:Rhine, and in the conclusion of the See also:armistice of See also:Znaim (See also:July 1808). In 1808 he was created See also:duke of See also:Friuli, and after the See also:Russian See also:campaign he became senator (1813).

He was in attendance on Napoleon at the battle of See also:

Bautzen (20th-21st May 1813) in Saxony, when he was mortally wounded, and died in a farmhouse near the battlefield on the 23rd of May. Napoleon bought the See also:farm and erected a See also:monument to his memory. Duroc was buried in the Invalides. The See also:chief source for Duroc's See also:biography is the Moniteur (31st of May 1797, 24th of October 1798, 30th of May 1813, &c.).

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