Pierre-Augustin Hulin

See also: Hulin (homonymy)

Pierre-Augustin Hulin , born with Paris the September 6th 1758 and died in Paris the January 9th 1841, is a soldier of the French Army having played a big role at the time of the Storming of the Bastille .

His/her father was a cloth merchant. He entered to the service in 1771 the regiment of Champagne-Infantry; he passed in 1772 to the regiment of the Swiss Gardes, where he was named sergeant the August 7th 1780. At the July 14th 1789, Hulin was put with the usher Maillard at the head of the risen people, going to the Bastille, entered one of the first the fortress. Hulin sought, but unnecessarily, to save the governor Delaunay that the people wanted to massacre, and that, to give the exchange, it covered with his hat, which enabled him to lead its healthy prisoner and except until the Town hall of Paris, where itself failed to be victim of the popular fury,

When Bailly had been created Maire of Paris, it was necessary that Hulin sanctioned of its immense popularity the choice which had just made the Parisian ones of their first municipal magistrate. The October 8th, it was promoted with the rank of captain-commander of the eighth company of balanced hunters.

Hulin, ordering volunteers of the Bastille, took his share in all the great days of the French revolution. With Versailles, with the August 10th, everywhere one saw it where freedoms of the people were in question. Thrown in prison like moderate, it left there after Thermidor 9.

Having taken service in year II in the Armed with Italy, it accepted from the general Napoleon Bonaparte the rank of adjudant-general. In year II, it ordered with Nice, Leghorn; in year III with Klagenfurth, in year IV with Milan, in the year V with Ferrare. He was chief of staff of division Richepanse in year VIII, senior officer of the palate in year IX, and year X chief of the staff of division Rivaud in Spain.

The 27 messidor year X, Hulin accepted First Consul the order to go to Algiers with a secret mission near the Dey. The mission of the general was followed of every success in spite of the difficulties of which it was roughcast. It accepted on its return, of the first consul, testimonys of his high satisfaction.

In garrison with Genoa, it took a share of most active with defense die this city. Sent on mission near the consuls, it followed Bonaparte to the reserve army and was named chief of staff of division Vautrin. After the Battle Marengo, it ordered again the place of Milan. In year XII, it was promoted with the Brigadier general rank of , with the command of pomegranates of the consular guard. The 19 frimaire of the same year, it accepted the cross of honor. The 29 ventôse according to, the Hulin general was designated to chair the Conseil of war charged to decide on the fate of the Duc of Enghien; the efforts of the president of the Commission, to save the victim, were blocked by the eagerness which one put to make carry out the sentence. At the time when the Hulin general wrote to the first Consul to inform him of the desire of the duke of Enghien to discuss, before dying, with the chief of the French Republic, the feather to him was torn off hands by a person whom the general did not want to name.

Hulin was promoted in year XII with the rank of commander of the Légion of honor, was sent to the Large army in 1805 and was responsible for the command of Vienna. It made, in 1806, the Campagne of Prussia at the conclusion from which it accepted the command of Berlin. On its return to Paris, in 1807, Hulin was named Major general (August 9th), with the command of the 1e military division. Created Count of the Empire in 1808, it was, in 1809, equipped with an equipment of 25.000 francs on the field of Hayen in Hanover and accepted in 1811 the badges and the dignity of large Officer of the Legion of Honor.

The general-count Hulin ordered the place of Paris and the first division at the time of the conspiracy of Mallet in 1812, and failed to perish victim of this daring attempt. Mallet being addressed to him, and seeing its badly received openings, drew to him with end carrying a blow from gun and the jaw crashed to pieces to him.

Created Grand Cross of the Order of the Meeting the April 3rd 1813, the count Hulin led until Blois, in March 1814, the empress regent Marie-Louise. The April 8th according to, after the Abdication of Fontainebleau, it sent to the provisional government its adhesion with the recently adopted measures.

The Restauration removed the command of the 1st division to him which was returned to him with the Hundred Days. Banished by the ordinance of the July 24th 1815, the Hulin general withdrew himself in Belgium and from there in Holland. He appeared fixed in this country when the ordinance of February 1st 1819 reopened to him the doors of the France. Returned in its fatherland, he lived a few years in a property located in the Nivernais, then in a ground located at the Tail-in-Brie (Seine-et-Oise), where he lived in the retirement. The count Hulin, who had lost the sight for a few years, died in Paris, the January 9th 1841, leaving for heir to his titles and his name, Mr. Hulin (Henri) captain with the Armée with Africa, his nephew and his adoptive son.

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P. - has. Hulin: '' Explications offered to the impartial men about the military commission established in year XII to judge the duke of Enghien '' (1823).

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