GERARD, ETIENNE MAURICE, COUNT (1773-1852) , French general, was born at Damvilliers (Meuse), on April 4, 1773. He joined a battalion of volunteers in 1791, and served in the campaigns of 1792-1793 under Generals Dumouriez and Jourdan. In 1795 he accompanied Bernadotte as aide-de-camp. In 1799 he was promoted chef d'escadron, and in i800 colonel. He distinguished himself at the battles of Austerlitz and Jena, and was made general of brigade in November 1806, and for his conduct in the battle of Wagram he was created a baron. He won distinction in the Spanish campaign (1810–II), the expedi tion to Russia, and the campaign of 1813. In the campaign of 1813, he commanded a division, and after the battle of Bautzen he was created by Napoleon a count of the empire. After the first restoration he was named by Louis XVIII. grand cross of the Legion of Honour and chevalier of St. Louis. In the Hundred Days Napoleon made Gerard a peer of France and placed him in command of the 1V. corps of the Army of the North with which he took a brilliant part in the battle of Ligny (see WATERLOO CAMPAIGN). He retired to Brussels after the fall of Napoleon, and did not return to France till 1817. He sat as a member of the chamber of deputies in 1822-1824, and again in 1827. He took part in the revolution of 1830, after which he was appointed minister of war and a marshal of France. He resigned the office of war minister in October, but in 1831 he took the command of the northern army, and drove the army of Holland out of Bel gium. In 1832 he commanded the besieging army in the famous scientific siege of Antwerp. He was again chosen war minister in July 1834, but resigned in October. From 1838 to 1842 he was commander of the National Guards of the Seine. He became a senator under the empire in 1852, and died in the same year.