Antoine Noguès
Born7 May 1777
Castelnau-Rivière-Basse, Hautes-Pyrénées, France
Died21 December 1853
Jû-Belloc, Gers, France
SpouseJenny Saint-Pierre-Lespéret
Parent(s)Antoine Noguès
Marie Rangon
RelativesJean-François-Xavier Noguès (brother)
Henri Saint-Pierre-Lespéret (father-in-law)

Antoine Noguès (7 May 1777 – 21 December 1853) was a French Army general. He served in the Grande Armée as well as in the Hundred Days and the Waterloo Campaign.

Early life

Antoine Noguès was born on 7 May 1777 in Castelnau-Rivière-Basse, Hautes-Pyrénées.[1][2] His father, Antoine Noguès, was a landowner in Castelnau-Rivière-Basse; his mother was Marie Rangon.[1] His elder brother, Jean-François-Xavier Noguès, also became a general.[1]

Career

Noguès joined the Army of the Eastern Pyrenees on 3 February 1792.[1] He was appointed as second lieutenant in 1793, aide-de-camp to Jean Lannes in 1795, and lieutenant followed by captain in 1796.[1] He served in Italy in 1801–1802, and in the Antilles in 1802–1803.[1] He was wounded in Saint Lucia in 1803 and promoted to battalion chief.[1] Upon returning to France, he became an aide-de-camp to Pierre Augereau, and he served in the Grande Armée from 1805 to 1806, when he became lieutenant colonel.[1] He served as a colonel in Germany from 1806 to 1808, and as Chief of the Defence Staff in Puigcerdà, Spain from 1811 to 1813.[1]

Noguès served as brigadier general in Girona, Catalonia and Aragon from 1813 to 1814.[1] He joined the Army of the North in 1815, and he served in the Hundred Days and the Waterloo Campaign.[1] He commanded the Hautes-Pyrénées from 1818 to 1830, and the Basses-Pyrénées from 1830 to 1848.[1]

Noguès became a commander of the Legion of Honour.[1]

Personal life, death and legacy

Noguès married Jenny, the daughter of Henri Saint-Pierre-Lespéret.[1] She was the godmother of Jenny Foch, the sister of Marshal Ferdinand Foch.[1]

Noguès died on 21 December 1853 in Jû-Belloc, Gers.[3] His memoirs were edited by Baron André de Maricourt in 1922.[1]

Works

  • Noguès, Antoine (1922). de Maricourt, André (ed.). Mémoires du général Noguès sur les guerres de l'Empire : 1777-1853. Paris: Lemerre. OCLC 422417070.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 "LE GENERAL JEAN-FRANCOIS-XAVIER NOGUES (1769-1808)". Bulletin de la Société académique des Hautes-Pyrénées Société académique des Hautes-Pyrénées. Tarbes: Imprimerie des Orphelins Apprentis: 18–20. 1950–1951. Retrieved May 6, 2017.
  2. ↑ "Antoine Noguès". Base Léonore. Retrieved May 6, 2017.
  3. ↑ Tulard, Jean (1999). Dictionnaire Napoléon. Paris: Fayard. p. 406. ISBN 2213604851.
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