Claude Lecourbe
Claude Jacques Lecourbe (22 February 1759 – 22 October 1815) was a French general during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars.
Biography
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Lecourbe was born in
Rhine and of the North, distinguishing himself at the Battle of Fleurus
in 1794.
Having been promoted to general of brigade in 1794, in 1799 Lecourbe was made a general of division and given a command in the
Napoleon Bonaparte, which forced his retirement in 1805. After Napoleon's abdication he was made a count by King Louis XVIII. The count of Artois
recalled Lecourbe to active duty in February 1815 and made him inspector-general of the 6th military Division with headquarters in Besançon.
Upon Napoleon's return from exile on
Colloredo-Mansfeld, only agreeing a ceasefire on 11 July 1815, a feat which earned him a place of honour in French schoolbooks. After Louis's second restoration, Lecourbe retired and on 22 October 1815 he died in Belfort
after a long illness.
Legacy
A statue commemorating him stands in the Place de la Liberté in Lons-le-Saunier, where a street is also named after him. Streets named in his honour can also be found in Paris and in Besançon. In Belfort a statue commemorates him as "The glorious defender of the city".
References
Sources
- Baradel, Y., et al. (1985). Histoire de Belfort. Roanne le Coteau: Horvath 1985. (p. 207ff).
- Clausewitz, Carl von (2020). Napoleon Absent, Coalition Ascendant: The 1799 Campaign in Italy and Switzerland, Volume 1. Trans and ed. Nicholas Murray and Christopher Pringle. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-3025-7
- Clausewitz, Carl von (2021). The Coalition Crumbles, Napoleon Returns: The 1799 Campaign in Italy and Switzerland, Volume 2. Trans and ed. Nicholas Murray and Christopher Pringle. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-3034-9
- Mullié, C. (1851). Biographie des célébrités militaires des armées de terre et de mer de 1789 à 1850. Paris: Poignavant
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