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LEFEBVRE, PIERRE FRANCOIS JOSEPH

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LEFEBVRE, See also:PIERRE See also:FRANCOIS See also:JOSEPH , See also:duke of See also:Danzig (1755-1820), See also:marshal of See also:France, was See also:born at Rouffach in See also:Alsace on the loth of See also:October 1755. At the outbreak of the Revolution he was a sergeant in the Gardes francaises, and with many of his comrades of this See also:regiment took the popular See also:side. He distinguished himself by bravery and humanity in many of the See also:street fights in See also:Paris, and becoming an officer and again distinguishing himself—this See also:time against See also:foreign invaders—he was made a See also:general of See also:division in 1794. He took See also:part in the Revolutionary See also:Wars from See also:Fleurus to Stokach, always resolute, strictly obedient and See also:calm. At Stokach (1799) he received a severe See also:wound and had to return to France, where he assisted See also:Napoleon during the coup d'etat of 18 See also:Brumaire. He was one of the first generals of division to be made marshal at the beginning of the First See also:Empire. He commanded the guard See also:infantry at See also:Jena, conducted the See also:siege of Danzig 18o6-,8b7 (from which See also:town he received his See also:title in 1808), commanded a See also:corps in the See also:emperor's See also:campaign of 1808-1809 in See also:Spain, and in 1809 was given the difficult task of commanding the Bavarian contingent, which he led in the containing engagements of See also:Abensberg and Rohr and at the See also:battle of See also:Eckmuhl. He commanded the Imperial Guard in See also:Russia, 1812, fought through the last campaign of the Empire, and won fresh See also:glory at Montmirail, Areis-sur-See also:Aube and Champaubert. He was made a peer of France by See also:Louis XVIII. but joined Napoleon during the See also:Hundred Days, and was only amnestied and permitted to resume his seat in the upper chamber in 1819. He died at Paris on the 14th of See also:September 1820. Marshal Lefebvre was a See also:simple soldier, whose qualifications for high See also:rank, See also:great as they were, came from experience and not from native See also:genius. He was incapable of exercising a supreme command, even of leading an important detachment, but he was absolutely trustworthy as a subordinate, as brave as he was experienced, and intensely loyal to his See also:chief.

He maintained to the end of his See also:

life a rustic simplicity of speech and demeanour.

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