Guillaume Emmanuel Guignard, vicomte de Saint-Priest (4 March 1776, in

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29 March 1814) was a French

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general who fought in the Russian army during the

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and the

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. He was the eldest son of prominent

diplomat François-Emmanuel Guignard, comte de Saint-Priest (1735–1821), one of King

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's last ministers, and Constance Wilhelmine de Saint-Priest. Guillaume Emmanuel became a Major-General in the

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army under Emperor

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, and fought against the forces of

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. Some weeks before the

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, he and his cavalry finally defeated the troops of French brigade general in the Battle of Großdrebnitz. Saint-Priest was defeated and mortally wounded during the 1814 Allied invasion of France in the Battle of Reims and died two weeks later at

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