Jean Jules Godefroy Calès was a French politician and physician. He was born on July 24, 1828, in Villefranche-de-Lauragais and died on November 2, 1899, in Bordeaux.
Jean Jules Godefroy Calès
Jean Jules Godefroy Calès (photograph of the second half of the 19th century)
Toulouse military camp in February 1871 (photography by Eugène Trutat – City Archives of Toulouse)
Jean Jules Godefroy Calès
Jean-Chrysostôme Calès was a French military officer who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He was born on 27 January 1769 in Caraman and died on 21 April 1853 in Ces
Jean Jules Godefroy Calès
…were Jean-Marie Calès (1757–1834), who was deputy at the National Convention and at the Council of Five Hundred under the French Revolution, and Jean-Chrysostôme Calès (1769–1853), who was colonel of the Great Army, baron of the Empire and elected at the ephemeral Chamber of Representatives created by Napoléon Bonaparte…
Baronial arms of Jean-Chrysostôme Calès
General Dugommier, commander of the Army of the Eastern Pyrenees, was killed on 18 November 1794 at the Battle of the Black Mountain, where Captain Calès distinguished himself (by Georges Rouget, 1835)
General Bonaparte at « The Crossing of the Arcole Bridge », (by Horace Vernet, 1826). Captain Calès and his 4th Regiment fought at this famous battle of the campaign of Italy on 15–17 November 1796.
Napoleon I distributes the crosses of the Legion of Honor in the camp of Boulogne on 16 August 1804 (Philippe-Auguste Hennequin - Palais de Versailles)