Claude-Sylvestre Colaud
Claude Silvestre, Count Colaud.
Claude Silvestre, Count Colaud (1754–1819) was a French Napoleonic general and senator.[1]
Biography
Colaud was born at Briançon on 12 December 1754. In 1801, for his military services, he was made a senator of the French Consulate by the First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte. He was also made a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour. He died in Paris on 4 December 1819. His name is inscribed on column five northern pillar of the Arc de Triomphe.[2][3]
Notes
- ↑ Also spelt Claude Silvestre, Count Collaud
- ↑ Thomas 1892, p. 634.
- ↑ Jensen 2013 cites Six 2003
References
- Jensen, Nathan D. (2013), General Claude-Sylvestre Colaud, arcdetriomphe.info, retrieved March 2013
- Six, Georges (2003), Dictionnaire Biographique des Généraux & Amiraux Français de la Révolution et de l'Empire (1792-1814) (in French), Paris: Gaston Saffroy
- Thomas, Joseph (1892), Universal pronouncing dictionary of biography and mythology (Aa, van der – Hyperius) 1, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, p. 634
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