Marshal General Jean-de-Dieu Soult, 1st Duke of Dalmatia was a French military commander and statesman. He was a Marshal of the Empire during the Napoleonic Wars, and served three times as President o
Portrait of Marshal Soult by George Healy, 1840
Soult's birthplace in Saint-Amans-Soult
Soult as a sergeant of the 23rd Line Infantry Regiment in 1792, by Vincent Nicolas Raverat (1834)
Anonymous portrait of Soult
Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers was a French statesman and historian who served as President of France from 1871 to 1873. He was the second elected president and the first of the Third French Republ
Jean-de-Dieu Soult
…of Marshal Soult by George Healy, 1840 Prime Minister of France In office 29 October 1840 – 18 September 1847 Monarch Louis Philippe I Preceded by Adolphe Thiers Succeeded by François Guizot In office 12 May 1839 – 1 March 1840 Monarch Louis Philippe I Preceded by Louis-Mathieu Molé Succeeded by Adolphe Thiers…
Portrait by Nadar, c. 1870s
The Duke of La Rochefoucauld, Thiers's first employer in Paris
Prince Talleyrand, Thiers's political mentor, in 1828
First page of Histoire de la Révolution française