Guillaume Emmanuel Guignard, vicomte de Saint-Priest

Guillaume Emmanuel Guignard de Saint-Priest
Guillaume Emmanuel Guignard by George Dawe
Other nameEmmanuil Francevich Saint-Priest
Born4 March 1776
Died29 March 1814 (aged 38)
Allegiance Russian Empire
RankMajor-general
Conflicts
Awards

Guillaume Emmanuel Guignard, vicomte de Saint-Priest[a] (4 March 1776, in Constantinople – 29 March 1814) was a French émigré general who fought in the Imperial Russian Army during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.

He was the eldest son of prominent émigré diplomat François-Emmanuel Guignard, comte de Saint-Priest (1735–1821), one of King Louis XVI's last ministers, and Constance Wilhelmine de Saint-Priest.

Guillaume Emmanuel became a major-general in the Russian army under Emperor Alexander I of Russia, and fought against the forces of Napoleon.[1] Some weeks before the Battle of Leipzig, he and his cavalry defeated the troops of French brigade general François Basile Azemar [fr] 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 Laon.

Notes

  1. ^ Russian: Эммануил Францевич Сен-При, romanizedEmmanuil Francevich Sen-Pri

References

  1. ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Saint Priest, François Emmanuel Guignard s.v. Guillaume Emmanuel" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 24 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 42.