#augereau

Well despite that fact, I wanna try more draw lesser "known" Marshals like him, and try to resist to draw Davout, Murat, Oudinot, etc...

This funny anecdote comes from the memoirs of Alexandre Dumas and contains a story the former heard from an older Larrey

On his return from Egypt, Larrey had brought back an object that had since fallen into the public domain, but which, at the time, still belonged to the realm of scientific curiosity: a mummy. He met Augereau.

-'Ah!' he said, 'come and have dinner with me tomorrow; I'll show you a mummy I brought back from the Pyramids.'

-'Gladly,' said Augereau.

Augereau arrived for dinner the next day.

-'Well, this mummy,' he said at dessert, 'why haven't we seen it yet?'

-'Because it's in my study,' says Larrey; 'follow me and you'll see it.'

Larrey went first, and Augereau followed him curiously. When he reached the cabinet, Larrey went to the box against the wall, opened it and uncovered the mummy. Augereau then approached and touched it with his finger:

-'Well,' he said scornfully, 'she's dead!'

Larrey was so stunned by this exclamation that he did not even think of apologising to Augereau for having disturbed him to show him something as uninteresting as a dead mummy.

Just went back from zumba with my mother and sisters. Now, i am randomly wandering, which marshal is interested in willing zumba and which one is not~?! Hmm~?

Give me your profound argument in which marshal belongs to which section, whether i am right or wrong about it. I also take criticism and funny yet eloquent joke of this chart hahahaha!

General Charles Pierre François Augereau at the Battle of Castiglione

It is Augereau’s birthday today, right? Time to party then! 🍾🍷🍻

So here’s a bit about Augereau’s youth, translated from Marbot’s memoirs. Marbot had been Augereau’s ADC during the campaigns of 1805 and 1806, I think.

Pierre Augereau was born in Paris in 1757. His father was in the fruit trade and had acquired a fortune that allowed him to raise his children well. His mother was born in Munich; she had the good sense never to use with her son anything but the German language, which he spoke perfectly, and this circumstance was very useful to him in his travels, as well as in the war. Augereau had a handsome figure; he was tall and well built. He liked all physical exercises, for which he had a very great aptitude. He was a good horseman and an excellent marksman. At the age of seventeen, Augereau having lost his mother, a brother of his mother, employed in the offices of Monsieur, made him join the Carabinieri, of which this prince was the colonel holder. He spent several years in Saumur, the usual garrison of the carabinieri. His way of serving and his good conduct soon brought him to the rank of non-commissioned officer. Unfortunately, there was a mania for duels at that time. Augereau's reputation as an excellent marksman forced him to have several of them, for the great genre among swordsmen was not to suffer any superiority. Gentlemen, officers, and soldiers, fought for the most futile reasons. Thus, when Augereau was in Paris for the semester, the famous fencing master Saint-George, seeing him pass, said in the presence of several fencers that he was one of the best swordsmen in France. Thereupon, a non-commissioned officer of dragoons, named Belair, who had the claim to be the most skilful after Saint-George, wrote to Augereau that he wanted to fight with him, unless he consented to recognise his superiority. Augereau having replied that he would do nothing of the sort, they met at the Champs-Élysées, and Belair was struck through and through with a sword...

This swordsman recovered, and having left the service, he married and became the father of eight children, whom he did not know how to support, when, in the early days of the Empire, he had the thought of addressing his former adversary, who had become a marshal. This man, whom I knew, had spirit and a very original cheerfulness. He presented himself at Augereau's with a small violin under his arm, and told him that, as he had nothing to give his eight children for dinner, he was going to make them dance contredanses to cheer them up, unless the marshal was willing to put him in a position to serve them more substantial food. Augereau recognised Belair, invited him to dinner, gave him money, gave him a very good job in the administration of the messenger service a few days later, and had two of his sons placed in a lycée.