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Augereau, Charles Pierre François

Pierre Augereau

Born

21 October 1757

Died

12 June 1816

A servant’s son from the faubourg Saint-Marceau whose early years in foreign armies are known almost entirely from his own later account, Augereau returned to France in 1792 and rose in the Army of the Eastern Pyrenees, becoming general of division at the end of 1793. He passed to the Army of Italy and commanded at Castiglione in August 1796, holding Wurmser while Bonaparte destroyed the other Austrian column. Sent to Paris by Bonaparte the following year and given command of the garrison, he was the instrument of the coup of 18 Fructidor, occupying the city on the night of 3 September 1797 with twelve thousand men and arresting Pichegru and the leading royalist deputies. He sat afterwards in the Council of Five Hundred. Made a marshal in 1804, he died in 1816.

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