Jacques Alexandre Law de Lauriston

Parents

Lauriston was 3rd of six wire of Jean Law de Lauriston and of Jeanne de Carvalho 1735. He was also the great nephew of John Law celebrates it economist.

Marriage and children

It Maria in 1789 with Claude-Antoinette Julie the Duke 1772 - 1873, of which he had: Auguste 1790 - 1860, Coralie 1800 - 1891 and Napoleon Adolphe 1805 - 1867

Biography

Jacques-Alexandre-Bernard, brought in France, made his studies with the Collège of Grassins. He enters to the Military academy of Paris in 1784. When Napoleon Bonaparte arrived at the Military academy, the October 19th 1784, it bound initially only with Lauriston and Dupont. Lauriston had entered there on September 1st; it left on September 1st 1785 there, with the rank of lieutenant as a second to the Régiment of Toul.

First mate in August 1791, it became assistance-of-camp of the general Beauvoir in 1792, made this countryside until year IV with the armies of North, of the Moselle and of Sambre-and-Meuse. He was put at the day order of the army to the Siège of Maastricht in 1793, was distinguished with the Siège from Valencians, and was named in year III chief of brigade of the 4th artillery regiment with horse.

16 germinal year IV, it gave its resignation and left the army; but Bonaparte, become First Consul, recalled it to the service and named it one of its assistance-of-camp. It is aide-de-camp of Bonaparte to Marengo. It accepted the order to lay off the 1 {{er}} regiment of artillery which had been mutiné and to reorganize it. It had of it then the command.

After having filled in 1801, a diplomatic mission with Copenhagen and having assisted the efforts of the inhabitants of this city against the English who bombarded it, it was charged to carry to London the ratification of the peace treaty concluded with Amiens between the France and the England. The assistance-of-camp of the First Consul was accepted with enthusiasm by the population of London. One cut the features of the horses and one trailed his car to his hotel.

Of return in France, it was named Brigadier general, commander of the Légion of honor, and accepted in the month of brumaire year XIII the command of the troops of the forwarding prepared for Batavia, under the orders of the admiral Villeneuve. It was high with the Major general rank of in pluviôse of the same year. The squadron installed the 9 germinal one and arrived at the Martinique at the beginning of meadow. Lauriston begin with the catch from the Fort Diamond, considered impregnable. Ten days after this bold action, the fleet gave to the veil for the Europe, had a business with the Cape Ortegal and was presented in front of Cadiz. Lauriston was reduced to ground, then returned to Paris.

It made the countryside of year XIV in Austria, and had the government of Braunau and that of Raguse which it seized, and of the Bouches of Kotor, in 1806. The December 19th 1807, it was made general governor of Venice until in 1808. On its arrival in this city, it made operate the translation of the body of famous Law, its great-uncle, in the church San Moïse.

In 1808, it accompanied Napoleon with the Conférence by Erfurth, was created Count of the Empire, and followed the Emperor to Madrid. It contributed to the catch of this city. From return in Germany in 1809, it passed to the Armée with Italy. It took an active share with the battles of Raab and Wagram, where it ordered artillery of the Guard. In Wagram, the French left wing was overflowed in consequence of an enormous fault made by the enemy, the general count de Lauriston, to the head of a battery of 100 pieces of artillery, went to trot to the enemy and carried death in its rows. The Emperor gave him the large cord of the Couronne of Iron.

After the peace of Presbourg, Lauriston went to Vienna, left one moment this city to fulfill a mission in Holland, and was there return when the prince de Neufchatel arrived there with the title of ambassador to marry, in the name of the Emperor, the archduchess Marie-Louise of Austria. He fulfills near this princess the functions of general colonel of the imperial Guard, and accompanied it at the time of its first voyage in France. It was still charged to go to seek with Harlem and to bring back to France the children of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, which had just abdicated the crown of Holland. The February 5th 1811, Napoleon appointed Lauriston his ambassador in Russia with Saint-Pétersbourg. It was to ask Alexandre the occupation of the ports of Riga and Revel, and the exclusion of the English vessels of the Baltique.

One year later, during the Countryside of Russia, it is again aide-de-camp of Napoleon. It was him which, after the Prise of Moscow, concludes an armistice with Kutusoff. It ordered the rear-guard in the retirement, and showed in these difficult circumstances the talents of a consumed general. Arrived at Magdeburg, it organized the 5 there {{E}} body of the large army, with the head of which it attended the battles of Lützen, of Bautzen and Wurschen. It carried of sharp force the village of Weissig, collapsed the body of York, and on the other side of the Sprée rejected it.

With the head of 5th and 11th body, it beat the Prussians in several meetings. With Leipzig, when one blew up the large bridge, it was on the other side of the Elster Blanche, and the Monitor announced its death. Captive conduit with Berlin, it returned to France after the events of 1814. With its release, it is named aide-de-camp of the count d' Artois.

Louis XVIII did it Chevalier of Saint-Louis, large cord of the Legion of honor and captain of the 1st company of the gray musketeers. It accompanied the king with Béthune, returned to Paris, and was withdrawn in its ground of Richecourt, close to Fère.

At the time of the return of the King, Lauriston went to the front of this prince to Cambrai, was sent to Laon to chair the electoral college of the Aisne, and created Pair of France the August 17th, had the command of the 1st division of infantry of the royal Guard. He will vote the death of Michel Ney.

In 1816, it chaired the councils of war formed to judge the admiral Linois, the baron Boyer de Peyreleau and the general Delaborde. Linois was discharged, Boyer condemned to died and Delaborde not judged. This same year, the king granted the cross of commander of Saint-Louis and the title of marquis to him. In 1820, it had the higher command of 12th and the 13th military divisions, chaired the electoral college of the Loire-Inférieure, entered to the ministry like Minister for the house of the king, and accepted the Grand Cross of Saint-Louis.

The June 6th 1823, it was high with the dignity of Marshal of France, accepted the command as a chief of the 2nd body of reserve of the Armée with the Pyrenees. Entered in Spain within the framework of the forwarding of Spain, it besieged and took Pampelune the September 17th, was named Chevalier of the Holy Spirit and the Spanish order of the Golden Fleece. On its return of France, it was named large huntsman. It left the ministry on August 4th, 1824 and was named Minister of state. He died in Paris of a Apoplexie striking down the June 11th 1828. The name of the Lauriston marshal is registered at the east coast of the Triumphal arch of the Star.

Many memories of the marshal are today in the Château of Dies pertaining to its descendants.

Partial source

External bonds

its genealogy on the site geneanet samlap

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