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Antoine Marie Chamans, comte de Lavalette
Antoine Marie Chamans, comte de Lavalette (14 October 176915 February 1830) was a French politician and general.
Biography.
Biography Early life.
Born in Paris the same year as Napoleon Bonaparte, he spent the Revolution in the French Revolutionary Army, where he rose through the ranks to become an "aide-de-camp" to General Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers.
In 1796, after the Battle of the Bridge of Arcole, Baraguey d'Hilliers introduced his "aide-de
(died 1903)
- 8 September - Frédéric Mistral, poet, shares the Nobel Prize in literature in 1904 (died 1914)
- 17 December - Jules de Goncourt, writer (died 1870)
Deaths.
- 4 February - Marc Antoine de Beaumont, nobleman and soldier (born 1763)
- 15 February - Antoine Marie Chamans, comte de Lavalette, soldier and politician (born 1769)
- 17 March - Laurent, Marquis de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, marshal (born 1764)