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| | Louis Gabriel Suchet - LoveToKnow 1911 |
 | | LOUIS GABRIEL SUCHET, Duc D'Albufera Da Valencia (1770-1826), marshal of France, one of the most brilliant of Napoleon's generals, was the son of a silk manufacturer at Lyons, where he was born on the 2nd of March 1770. |
 | | Suchet wrote Mernoires dealing with the Peninsular War, which were left by the marshal in an unfinished condition, and the two volumes and atlas appeared in1829-1834under the editorship of his former chief staff officer, Baron St Cyr-Nogues. |
 | | See C. Barault-Roullon, Le Marechal Suchet (Paris, 1854) Choumara, Considerations militaires sur les memoires du Marechal Suchet (Paris, 1840), a controversial work on the last events of the Peninsular War, inspired, it is supposed, by Soult; and LieutenantGeneral Lamarque's obituary notice in the Spectateur militaire (1826). |
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