Jean-Baptiste Antoine Marcelin Marbot, known as Marcellin Marbot, was a French general, famous for his memoirs depicting the Napoleonic age of warfare.
14 Facts About Marcellin Marbot
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Marcellin Marbot belongs to a family that has distinguished itself particularly in the career of arms, giving three generals to France in less than 50 years.
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Marcellin Marbot's elder brother, Antoine Adolphe Marcelin Marbot, was a military man of some note.
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Jean-Baptiste Antoine Marcelin Marbot was born into a family of military nobility in Altillac, in the ancient province of Quercy in southwestern France.
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Marcellin Marbot was the younger son of General Jean-Antoine Marbot, former aide-de-camp to Lieutenant-General de Schomberg, inspector general of the cavalry within the Military household of the king of France.
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Marcellin Marbot fought with the Army of Italy and took part in the Battle of Marengo and the Siege of Genoa, during which his father, General Jean-Antoine Marbot died.
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Marcellin Marbot became aide-de-camp to General Pierre Augereau on 31 August 1803 and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant on 11 July 1804.
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Marcellin Marbot was promoted to the rank of marechal de camp, and in this rank he was present at the Siege of Antwerp in 1832.
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In exile after Battle of Waterloo, Marcellin Marbot returned to France in 1819 and wrote two books:.
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The first publication was a reply to General Joseph Rogniat's treatise on war, in which Marcellin Marbot effectively contrasted the human factor in war with Rogniat's pure theory.
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Marcellin Marbot wanted the King of France to give him an appointment with the rank of Colonel; that is quite obvious.
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Marcellin Marbot uses 'Emperor' once, so as not to look as though he were afraid to do so, or to appear cowardly, and another time he uses 'Napoleon'.
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Marcellin Marbot's fame rests chiefly on the Memoirs of his life and campaigns, the Memoirs of General Baron de Marbot, which were written for his children and published posthumously in Paris, in 1891.
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Marcellin Marbot's Memoirs were widely acclaimed, and Arthur Conan Doyle wrote of them:.