Baron Louis Alméras (15 March 1768 in
Vienne, Isère
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– 7 January 1828 in
Bordeaux
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) was a French general. He distinguished himself under
Napoleon
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in Italy and Egypt, and was taken prisoner by the Russians in the retreat from Moscow. Returning to France after Napoleon's fall, he was made
chevalier of
St. Louis in 1814. In 1823, governor of
Bordeaux
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, where, prematurely old through hard service and wound, he died. He was a commander of the
Order of Saint Louis
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.
References
*''Dictionnaire de biographie française''.
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1768 births
1828 deaths
People from Vienne, Isère
French generals
Commanders of the Order of Saint Louis
Names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe