DUROC, GERAUD CHRISTOPHE MICHEL

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DUROC, GERAUD CHRISTOPHE MICHEL , duc de Frioul (17721813), French general, was born at Pont a Mousson (Meurthe et Moselle) on the 25th of October 1772. The son of an officer, he was educated at the military schools of his native town and of Chalons. He was gazetted second lieutenant. (artillery) in the 4th regiment in 1793, and advanced steadily in the service. Captain Duroc became aide-de-camp to

Napoleon

NAPOLEON

ill 1796, and distinguished himself at Isonzo, Brenta and Gradisca in the Italian campaigns of 179697. He served in

Egypt

EGYPT

, and was seriously wounded at

Aboukir

ABOUKIR

. His devotion to

Napoleon

NAPOLEON

was rewarded by complete confidence. He became first aide-de-camp (1798), general of brigade (1800), and

governor

GOVERNOR (from the Fr. gouverneur, from gouverner, O. Fr. governer, Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, to direct, guide)

of the Tuileries. After the battle of Marengo he was sent on missions to Vienna, St

Petersburg

PETERSBURG

, Stockholm and Copenhagen. As grand

marshal

MARSHAL (med. Lat. marescalcus, from O.H.Ger. marah, horse, and scalc, servant)

of the Tuileries he was responsible for the

measures

MEASURES

taken to secure Napoleon's personal safety whether in France or on his campaigns, and he directed the minutest details of the imperial household. After Austerlitz, where he commanded the grenadiers in the absence of General Oudinot, he was employed in a

series

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

of important negotiations with Frederick William of Prussia, with the elector of Saxony (December 1806), in the incorporation of certain states in the Confederation of the Rhine, and in the conclusion of the armistice of

Znaim

ZNAIM (Czech Znojmo)

(July 1808). In 1808 he was created duke of Friuli, and after the Russian campaign he became senator (1813). He was in attendance on Napoleon at the battle of Bautzen (20th-21st May 1813) in Saxony, when he was mortally wounded, and died in a farmhouse near the battlefield on the 23rd of May. Napoleon bought the farm and erected a monument to his memory. Duroc was buried in the Invalides.
The

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

source for Duroc's biography is the Moniteur (31st of May 1797, 24th of October 1798, 30th of May 1813, &c.).

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