Bourmont, Louis-Auguste-Victor, Count de Ghaisnes de

Bourmont, Louis-Auguste-Victor, Count de Ghaisnes de

▪ French soldier and politician
born Sept. 2, 1773, château de Bourmont, France
died Oct. 27, 1846, château de Bourmont

      French soldier and politician, conqueror of Algiers (1830), for which he received the title of marshal of France.

      Bourmont entered the French Guard (1788) but fled the French Revolution to join the royalist forces in 1792. He was a leading figure in the royalist revolt that broke out in the Vendée in western France in 1793. By 1800 Bourmont had made his peace with Napoleon Bonaparte, only to be arrested for his alleged participation in a royalist plot (1800). He escaped to Portugal (1804), where three years later he joined French invading forces and returned to France. He served Napoleon with distinction in the Italian and Russian campaigns (1810–12) and at the battles of Lützen (1813) and Nogent (1814). He was promoted to brigade general and awarded the Legion of Honour. On the eve of the Battle of Waterloo (June 1815), however, he deserted to the Prussians, rejoining the royalist cause.

      He served the restored Louis XVIII (reigned 1814–24) in the French expedition to suppress an uprising in Spain (1823). Six years later he was appointed minister of war in the tottering government of the ultrarightist Prince de Polignac. In Algeria in 1830, Bourmont's speedy conquest earned him a marshal's baton. Refusing to support the “Citizen King” Louis-Philippe, he became implicated in the plots of the Duchess de Berry (1832) and went into exile in Portugal. There—as always on the side of absolutism—he aided the pretender Michael in the civil war of 1833–34. After the victory of the constitutional forces, he retired to Rome. He later returned under the amnesty of 1840 to France, where he remained a staunch supporter of the Bourbon pretender Henri, Count de Chambord.

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