Catherine-Dominique de Pérignon
,
1st Marquis de Grenade (
May 31,
1754 –
December 25,
1818) was
Marshal of France.
Early life
He was born to a family of
small nobility in
Grenade-sur-Garonne,
département of the
Haute-Garonne. After a
roturier appointment in the
grenadier corps of
Aquitaine, he retired to his
estate. Pérignon welcomed the
French Revolution, and gained a seat in the
Legislative Assembly (1791), where he sat on the
Right, but soon resigned and made his military career during the
French Revolutionary Wars.
Revolutionary Wars
In 1793-1795 he held commands in the
Army of the Eastern Pyrenees, defeating the
Spanish troops at the
battle of Escola and succeeding
Dugommier as
Général de Division after the latter's death at the
Battle of the Black Mountain. After an arduous siege he succeeded in taking
Roses. In 1796, he was elected by Haute-Garonne to the
Council of Five Hundred, and became the
Directory's
ambassador to Spain, concluding the
Treaty of San Ildefonso against the
Kingdom of Great Britain.
He was then involved in a
smuggling affair and compromised with a young woman
Royalist spy. In 1798 Perignon was recalled and remanded to the Army in
Liguria. Wounded and captured by
Second Coalition armies at the
battle of Novi, he returned to France in 1800.
Empire and Restoration
Pérignon was a supporter of
Napoleon Bonaparte, was made
senator (1801), Marshal (1804) and
count of the
French Empire; in 1805, he received the
Legion of Honor. From
September 18,
1806 to
July 23,
1808, he was the
Governor-general of the
Duchy of Parma. Later moved to the
Kingdom of Naples, Pérignon, recently ennobled, became a close acquaintance of the royal couple (
King Joachim Murat and
Caroline Bonaparte).
He returned to France in 1814 and rallied to the
Bourbon Restoration and
Louis XVIII - he was stricken off the list of Marshals during the
Hundred Days, and voted in favor of the
death penalty for
Michel Ney. He was raised to
marquis de Grenade, a
Peer of France and awarded the
Order of Saint Louis.
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