Catherine-Dominique de Pérignon

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Armée des Pyrénées orientales
Battles/warsFrench Revolutionary Wars
Napoleonic Wars
AwardsGrand Cross of the Legion of Honour
Order of Saint Louis

Catherine-Dominique de Pérignon, 1st

Grenade – 25 December 1818) was a Marshal of the Empire.[1][2]

Early life

Pérignon was born to a family of

Right, but soon resigned and made his military career during the French Revolutionary Wars
.

Revolutionary Wars

From 1793 to 1795, Pérignon 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 François 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.

Pérignon subsequently became involved in a

Second Coalition armies at the Battle of Novi
, he returned to France in 1800.

Empire and Restoration

Further information: First French Empire
Heraldic achievement of Catherine-Dominique de Pérignon as comte d’Empire

Pérignon was a supporter of

Duchy of Parma. Later moved to the Kingdom of Naples, Pérignon, 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

death penalty for Michel Ney. He was raised to marquis de Pérignon, 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

  1. ISBN 978-0-7006-3025-7
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  2. ISBN 978-2-7233-0411-5
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