Claude Juste Alexandre Legrand
Claude Juste Alexandre Louis Legrand | |
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Portrait by Antoine-Jean Gros, 1812 | |
| Born | 23 February 1762 Le Plessier-sur-Saint-Just, France |
| Died | 9 January 1815 Paris, France |
| Buried | Panthéon, Paris |
| Allegiance | First French Empire |
| Branch | French Army |
| Years of service | 1777–1815 |
| Rank | général de division |
| Battles / wars | French Revolutionary Wars Napoleonic Wars |
| Awards | Grand Eagle / Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur, name inscribed on the Arc de Triomphe (east side) |
Claude Juste Alexandre Louis Legrand (French pronunciation: [klod ʒyst alɛksɑ̃dʁ lwi ləɡʁɑ̃]; 23 February 1762, Le Plessier-sur-Saint-Just, Oise – 9 January 1815, Paris) was a French general. He commanded French divisions at several notable battles of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Napoléon made him a Count of the Empire in 1808. He rose to senator on 5 April 1813, then Pair de France on 4 June 1814 and chevalier de Saint-Louis on 27 June 1814. He organised the defence of Chalon-sur-Saône in 1814 and died in Paris in 1815 of wounds received beside the River Berezina.