Louis Antoine de Gontaut-Biron
See also: Biron
Louis Antoine de Gontaut-Biron , count then duke of Biron, Marshal of France (1700 - 1788).
4th wire of Charles Armand de Gontaut-Biron.
Entered adolescent with the service, it makes countryside in Italy (castle of Milan attacks, battles of Tortone, battles of Parma). In 1741, it takes part in the countryside of Moravie, is seriously wounded with the seat of Prague.
With Fontenoy, it takes the command of the regiment of the Gardes-Françaises after the death of its holder and receives in 1757 the stick of marshal. It was extremely popular within its troops as this anecdote testifies some.
At the time of the terrible catastrophe of May 31st, 1770, with the fireworks drawn for the marriage from the dolphin and of Marie-Antoinette, it was taken in the brawl and was going to perish choked, pressed with the feet, when soldiers of the guards recognized it. At once these good people is called, met, in this thrown into a panic crowd where each one only thought of saving its own life, make with their old colonel a rampart of their body and, at the price of thousand dangers, draw it from the press healthy and except. In 1753, it had bought superb the Hôtel Biron which one can still admire since it shelters the Musée Rodin.
He is also the author of a Traité war .
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