EXELMANS, RENE JOSEPH ISIDORE, COUNT (1775— '852), marshal of France, was born at Bar-le-Duc on Nov. 13, He volunteered into the 3rd battalion of the Meuse in 1 i91, and served almost continuously through the Revolutionary Wars. He became a lieutenant in 1797, and in 1798 was aide-de-camp to General able, and in the following year to General Broussier. In his first campaign in Italy he greatly distinguished himself ; and in April 1799 he was rewarded for his services by the grade of captain of dragoons. In the same year he took part with honour in the conquest of Naples and was again promoted. In 18o1 he became aide-de-camp to Murat, whom he accompanied in the Austrian and Polish campaigns of .18o5, 1806 and 1807. At the passage of the Danube, and in the action of Wertingen, he specially distinguished himself ; he was made colonel for the valour which he displayed at Austerlitz, and general of brigade for his conduct at Eylau in 1807. In 18o8 he accompanied Murat to Spain, but was there made prisoner and conveyed to England. On regaining his liberty in 1811 he became grand-master of horse to Murat at Naples, but rejoined the French army just before the Russian campaign. He was promoted general on the field of Borodino. In the retreat from Moscow his steadfast courage was conspicuous. In 1813 he was made, for services in the campaign of Saxony and Silesia, grand-officer of the Legion of Honour, and in 1814 he reaped additional glory by his intrepidity and skill in the campaign in France. When the Bourbons were restored Exelmans retained his position in the army. Napoleon after his return from Elba made Exelmans a peer of France and placed him in command of the II. Cavalry Corps which he led in the Waterloo campaign, the battle of Ligny and Grouchy's march on Wavre. In the closing operations around Paris he won great distinction. After the second restoration he denounced, in the House of Peers, the execution of Marshal Ney as an "abominable assassination" and was thereafter compelled to live in exile until 1819. In 1828 he became inspector-general of cavalry, and in 1851 a marshal of France. He died on July ro, 1852.