French marshal, the conqueror of Algiers, born on the 2nd of September 1773, at Bourmont, in Anjou. He went into exile during the revolution, and from 1793 to 1799 was actively engaged in the anti-revolutionary struggle in Vendée. Subsequently his career was a vacillating one, at one lime favoring the Bourbons, at another deserting their cause. He served in the Napoleonic campaigns of 1813–14, also in Algiers and in Portugal. He died on his estate in Anjou on the 27th of October 1846.
