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LAURISTON, JACQUES See also:ALEXANDRE See also:BERNARD See also:LAW, See also:MARQUIS DE (1768—1828) , See also:French soldier and diplomatist, was the son of Jacques See also:Francois Law de Lauriston (1724—1785), a See also:general officer in the French See also:army, and was See also:born at See also:Pondicherry on the 1st of See also:February 1768. He obtained his first See also:commission about 1786, served with the See also:artillery and on the See also:staff in the" earlier Revolutionary See also:campaigns, and became brigadier of artillery in 1795. Resigning in 1796, he was brought back into the service in 1800 as aide-de-See also:camp to See also:Napoleon, with whom as a See also:cadet Lauriston had been on friendly terms. In the years immediately preceding the first See also:empire Lauriston was successively director of the Le Fere artillery school and See also:special See also:envoy to See also:Denmark, and he was selected to convey to See also:England the ratification of the See also:peace of See also:Amiens (1802). In 18o5, having risen to the See also:rank of general of See also:division, he took See also:part in the See also:war against See also:Austria. He occupied See also:Venice and See also:Ragusa in 18o6, was made See also:governor-general of Venice in 1807, took part in the See also:Erfurt negotiations of 1808, was made a See also:count, served with the See also:emperor in See also:Spain in 1808—1809 and held commands under the See also:viceroy See also:Eugene See also:Beauharnais in the See also:Italian See also:campaign and the advance to See also:Vienna in the same See also:year. At the See also:battle of See also:Wagram he commanded the guard artillery in the famous " artillery preparation " which decided the battle. In 1811 he was made See also:ambassador to See also:Russia; in 1812 he held a command in the Grande Armee and won distinction by his firmness in covering the See also:retreat from See also:Moscow. He commanded the V. army See also:corps at See also:Lutzen and See also:Bautzen and the V. and XI. in the autumn campaign, falling into the hands of the enemy in the disastrous retreat from See also:Leipzig. He was held a prisoner of war until the fall of the empire, and then joined See also:Louis XVIII., to whom he remained faithful in the See also:Hundred Days. His See also:reward was a seat in the See also:house of peers and a command in the royal guard. In 1817 he was created marquis and in 1823 See also:marshal of See also:France.

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Spanish War he commanded the corps which besieged and took See also:Pamplona. He died at See also:Paris on the 12th of See also:June 1828.

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