Abstract

General Marbot

This article presents memoirs of General Baron de Marbot who served on the staff of the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. Marbot was very young when the Revolution broke out. While his father was in the army in the Pyrenees, his mother took him to Rennee, where he remained four years. His father, having been put at the head of the army at Toulouso, sent for him and placed him in the school at Soreze, the only great military school which the Revolutionary Government had preserved. He recovered his grade in the French Army, was sent to Naples as instructor, married the daughter of a Greek merchant, fled with her to Lisbon, was thrown into the prisons of the Inquisition, was set at liberty and returned to France, was appointed captain, and served in Brittany and in Italy, and became a general.