Joseph Marie De Pernety
Joseph Marie de Pernety (19 May 1766- 29 April 1856) was a French general during the Revolution and the Empire. Biography Youth and early career under the Ancien Regime The son of Maurice-Jacques Pernety, Receiver general for Lyon, and Françoise Gardelle. He was educated at the military school of Tournon. He entered the artillery school of Metz as an artillery midshipman on 1 June 1781, and on 1 June 1782 was a pupil at the same school. Appointed lieutenant on 1 September 1783 to the La Fère artillery regiment, he was promoted to the Grenoble regiment and made first lieutenant in the corps on 17 June 1788. During the French Revolution Second-in-command in the 4th foot artillery regiment on 1 April 1791, he fought in the 1792 campaign in the Italian Army and was promoted on 1 February of that year to the command of a company in his regiment. Pernety distinguished himself by his bravery and talents in the defence of Belvedere and the capture of Second Battle of Saorgio, S ...
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Lyon
Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, northeast of Saint-Étienne. The City of Lyon proper had a population of 522,969 in 2019 within its small municipal territory of , but together with its suburbs and exurbs the Lyon metropolitan area had a population of 2,280,845 that same year, the second most populated in France. Lyon and 58 suburban municipalities have formed since 2015 the Metropolis of Lyon, a directly elected metropolitan authority now in charge of most urban issues, with a population of 1,411,571 in 2019. Lyon is the prefecture of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region and seat of the Departmental Council of Rhône (whose jurisdiction, however, no longer extends over the Metropolis of Lyo ...
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