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SERURIER, JEAUME MATHIEU PHILIBERT, See also:COMTE (1742--1819) , See also:French soldier, was See also:born at See also:Laon of See also:middle-class See also:parent-See also:age. After being See also:lieutenant of the Laon See also:militia, he entered the royal See also:army, and served in the See also:campaigns in See also:Hanover (1759), See also:Portugal (1762) and See also:Corsica (1771). At the beginning of the Revolution he had attained the See also:rank of See also:major, and in its course he became See also:colonel, brigadier-See also:general and finally general of See also:division. He fought under See also:Kellermann and B. L. J. See also:Scherer in the army of the See also:Alps in 1795, and under See also:Bonaparte in See also:Italy at See also:Vico, See also:Mondovi, See also:Castiglione and See also:Mantua. Besides his military qualities, he showed See also:great administrative See also:talent in governing See also:Venice (1797) and See also:Lucca (1798). He helped Bonaparte in the coup d'etat of 18 See also:Brumaire, and had a brilliant career under the See also:empire, when he was made senatcr, See also:count, See also:marshal, and See also:governor of the See also:palace of the Invalides. In 1814, however, he voted for the downfall of See also:Napoleon, and under the Restoration was made a peer of See also:France. He was dismissed from all his posts for having joined Napoleon during the See also:Hundred Days, and died in retirement. A statue has been raised to his memory at Laon.

See L. Tuetey, Un General de l'armee d'Italie, Serurier (See also:

Paris, 1899).

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