[or Hullin; comte]. French soldier, born in Paris on the 6th of September 1758. He joined the army in 1771, siding with the revolutionists in 1789; became adjutant-general to Napoleon in 1796; general of a division in 1802; presided over the court-martial which condemned the Duke of Enghien to death in 1804; was military governor of Paris in 1812, and put down the conspiracy of Malet against Napoleon. When the Bourbons were restored he was banished, but allowed to return to Paris in 1819, where, in 1823, he published a defense of the action of the military commission in the affairs of the Duke of Enghien. He died in Paris on the 9th of January 1841.
