Major-General Louis Auguste François Mariage (; 1767–1827), Baron of the Empire, Grand Officer of the Legion Honour and Commander of the order of St. Louis, was a French officer during the

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Biography

Mariage was born in Valogenes on 8 July 1767. He entered the French army as a private before the French Revolution. During the Revolution he distinguished himself in several campaigns and worked his way up through the ranks. He was appointed a colonel and sent on a mission to Turkey where he showed ability. He was promoted to ''

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'' (major-general) on 18 October 1812. He was wounded at the

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during the

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and was captured by the Russians. He returned to France after the first restoration of

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in 1814. During Napoleon's

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, he commanded National Guard of the three military division. Forces under his command were decisively defeated when

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was stormed by an Austrian column under the command of Lieutenant-General Count Beckers. He served in the Royalist army in 1823 as an advisor with the army of the Pyrenees before retiring as a Major-General to Paris, where he died on 8 December 1827.

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