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Auguste de Marmont was born on July 20, 1774, at Châtillon-sur-Seine, the son of an ex-officer in the army who belonged to the petite noblesse and adopted the principles of the Revolution.
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Auguste de Marmont was born on July 20, 1774, at Châtillon-sur-Seine, the son of an ex-officer in the army who belonged to the petite noblesse and adopted the principles of the Revolution.
Marmont entered the artillery in 1792. At the Siege of Toulon (1793) he was noticed by Bonaparte and soon became his aide-de-camp. Marmont was so prominent in the Italian campaign (1796) that he was made a colonel at the age of 22. Two years later Bonaparte made him a general on the voyage to Egypt, and on July 7, 1806, he appointed him governor of Dalmatia. There Marmont forced the Russians to lift the siege of Ragusa in September and secured control of the Adriatic coast. As governor, he built roads and introduced a modern administration. He was made duc de Raguse in 1808 but lamented the "cruel obscurity" of a provincial command.
In the war of 1809 against Austria, Marmont again saw action, and, after the Battle of Wagram (July 5–6), he was made a marshal. With Austria’s defeat he was appointed governor general of the Illyrian Provinces, a state newly created by Napoleon that included Dalmatia and other conquered territory. Marmont was called to command the French army in Portugal in May 1811 but had little success against the British; he was severely wounded in the Battle of Salamanca (July 22, 1812). The following year he commanded a corps in Germany, where his successes led to his becoming Napoleon’s chief lieutenant.
At the restoration of Louis XVIII, Marmont was rewarded for his desertion of Napoleon and was made a peer of France. During the revolution of July 1830, when his troops failed to hold Paris for Charles X, he was accused of treachery. His name was stricken from the list of marshals, and he went into exile. His Mémoires appeared in nine volumes in 1856–1857.
Auguste Frédéric Louis Viesse de Marmont died on March 22, 1852.
Auguste Frédéric Louis Viesse de Marmont was a prominent military, whose distinguished military career ended when, as Napoleon’s chief lieutenant in a battle under the walls of the city, he surrendered Paris (March 30, 1814) and a few days later took his troops into the Allied lines.
In 1808, Auguste de Marmont was awarded the title Duke of Ragusa.
He was also awarded the Legion of Honor(October 2, 1803; February 2, 1805; June 14, 1804), the Order of the Iron Crown (June 2, 1805), the Order of the Württemberg Crown (1806), the Order of St. Louis (June 1, 1814; May 3, 1816; August 24, 1820), the Order of the Iron Crown (November 18, 1817), the Order of the Holy Spirit (September 30, 1820), the Order of St. Andrew the Apostle (October 13, 1826), the Order of St. Alexander Nevsky (October 13, 1826).
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In 1798, Auguste de Marmont married Hortense de Perregaux. They had no children and were divorced in 1817.
