Jean-Mathieu-Philibert, comte Sérurier led a division in the War of the First Coalition and became a Marshal of the Empire under Emperor Napoleon. He was born into the minor nobility and in 1755 joine
Portrait by Jean-Louis Laneuville
Sérurier in 1792
Colle delle Finestre
Barthélemy Scherer
Michel Ney
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Michel Ney, 1st Prince de la Moskowa, 1st Duke of Elchingen, was a French military commander and Marshal of the Empire who fought in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.
Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier
…Napoleon's second downfall. Despite his Bonapartist sympathies, acting in his role of Peer, Sérurier voted in favour of the death penalty for Marshal Michel Ney. Sérurier was restored to the dignity of marshal in 1819. He died on 21 December that year in Paris and was buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery. His body…
Portrait by François Gérard, 1805
Ney's birthplace in Saarlouis
Michel Ney as a sous-lieutenant in the 4th Hussars in 1792 by Adolphe Brune, 1834
Ney at the Battle of Eylau