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. http://www.arcdetriomphe.info/officers/colaud/. 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)". Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott. p. 634. http://archive.org/details/universaldict01thomrich.
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