Claude-Victor Perrin
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Claude-Victor Perrin, Duke of Belluno was a French military commander who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He was made a Marshal of the Empire in 1807 by Emperor Na
Portrait by Antoine-Jean Gros, 1812
Victor as a lieutenant-colonel of 5th Bouches-du-Rhône Battalion in 1792, by Georges Rouget (1835)
Heraldic achievement of Claude-Victor Perrin, Duke of Belluno
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Marshal of the Empire
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Marshal of the Empire was a civil dignity during the First French Empire. It was established by Sénatus-consulte on 18 May 1804 and to a large extent reinstated the formerly abolished title of Marshal
Claude-Victor Perrin
…7 December 1764 – 1 March 1841) was a French military commander who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He was made a Marshal of the Empire in 1807 by Emperor Napoleon I. Victor was born in Lamarche on 7 December 1764 to Charles Perrin and Marie Anne Floriot. In 1781, he enlisted in an…
Napoleon near Borodino, an 1897 painting by Vasily Vereshchagin. Several Marshals (recognisable by their white-feathered bicornes) are depicted in the painting.
Official uniform of a Marshal of the Empire. It was designed by painter Jean-Baptiste Isabey and designer Charles Percier.
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Jean Baptiste Jules Bernadotte, Prince de Ponte Corvo, roi de Suède, Maréchal de France