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French Marshal
Catherine-Dominique de Perignon
,
1st
Marquis
de Perignon
(
French pronunciation:
[kat?in
d?minik
d?
pe?i???]
, 31 May 1754 in
Grenade
? 25 December 1818) was a
Marshal of the Empire
.
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Early life
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Perignon was born to a family of
the lesser nobility
in
Grenade-sur-Garonne
,
Languedoc
. After a
roturier
appointment in the
grenadier
corps of the
Aquitaine
Regiment, he retired to his
estate
. Perignon welcomed the
French Revolution
, and gained a seat in the
Legislative Assembly
(1791), where he sat on the
Right
, but soon resigned and made his military career during the
French Revolutionary Wars
.
Revolutionary Wars
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From 1793 to 1795, Perignon held commands in the
Army of the Eastern Pyrenees
, defeating the
Spanish
troops at the battle of Escola with "a sombre kind of energy". He succeeded
Jacques Francois Dugommier
as army commander after that general's death at the
Battle of the Black Mountain
. He successfully concluded the
Siege of Roses
in early 1795. In 1796, he was elected by Haute-Garonne to the
Council of Five Hundred
. He became the
French Directory
's
ambassador
to Spain, concluding the
Treaty of San Ildefonso
against the
Kingdom of Great Britain
.
Perignon subsequently became involved in a
smuggling
affair and was compromised by a young woman who was a
Royalist
spy. In 1798 he was recalled and remanded to the Army in
Liguria
where he was assigned to command the left wing. Wounded and captured by
Second Coalition
armies at the
Battle of Novi
, he returned to France in 1800.
Empire and Restoration
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Perignon was a supporter of
Napoleon Bonaparte
, and was made a
senator
(1801), Marshal (1804) and
count
of the
French Empire
; in 1805, he received the
Legion of Honor
. From September 18, 1806, to July 23, 1808, he was the
Governor-general
of the
Duchy of Parma
. Later moved to the
Kingdom of Naples
, Perignon, recently ennobled, became a close acquaintance of the royal couple (
King Joachim Murat
and
Caroline Bonaparte
).
He returned to France in 1814 and rallied to the
Bourbon Restoration
and
Louis XVIII
- he was stricken off the list of Marshals during the
Hundred Days
, and voted in favor of the
death penalty
for
Michel Ney
. He was raised to
marquis de Perignon
, a
Peer of France
, and awarded the
Order of Saint Louis
. As Dr. George Ostermann commented, "M. de Perignon died as if the Empire he served well, though reluctantly, had never existed."
References
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External links
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Media related to
Catherine-Dominique de Perignon
at Wikimedia Commons
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