Louis-Vincent-Joseph Le Blond de Saint-Hilaire

Louis-Vincent-Joseph Le Blond, comte de Saint-Hilaire
Born(1766-09-04)4 September 1766
Ribemont, France
Died5 June 1809(1809-06-05) (aged 42)
Vienna, Austria
Buried
Allegiance France
Service/branchInfantry
Years of service1777-1809
RankGeneral of division
Battles/warsFrench Revolutionary Wars,
Napoleonic Wars
AwardsCount of the Empire

Louis-Vincent-Joseph Le Blond, comte de Saint-Hilaire (French pronunciation: [lwi vɛ̃sɑ̃ ʒozɛf blɔ̃ kɔ̃t sɛ̃t‿ilɛʁ]; 4 September 1766 – 5 June 1809) was a French general during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars,[1] described by Lejeune as "the pride of the army, as remarkable for his wit as for his military talents."[2]

  1. ^ Fierro, Alfredo; Palluel-Guillard, André; Tulard, Jean (1995). Histoire et Dictionnaire du Consulat et de l'Empire (in French). Paris: Robert Laffont. p. 1075. ISBN 2-221-05858-5.
  2. ^ Lejeune, Louis-François (1897). Memoirs of Baron Lejeune. Vol. 1. London: Longmans, Green, and Co. p. 281.

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