DROUET, JE.xN 11.trrIsTE. count (1765.1544). A marshal of France. lle was horn .July 29. 17113. at Rheims. and entered the truly as a private in 17:42. took Nut in the 1793.911. and became :ride-de-vamp to lieneral Lefevre. Ils• distinguished himself during the sieges of Valenciennes. be Que.-110y, and and in 1797, under llo•lle, forced the surrender of the fortress of 1:hrenlsreitstein. llis important services raised his rapid promotion, and he be e•ine brigadier-general in 1799. llade as general f division in he leek an active part in the campaign of 1s05-117. distinguishing himself at .lean, :111.1 being Nloundeil at Friedland. Ilis con duct won him the Grand Cross of the Legion cf Honor and the title of Comte diTrlon. Ile took a prominent part in the Peninsula r War, and fought bravely 111,•ain•t IVellington in ISII. After the fall of Napoleon he was given of the Sixteenth Division, but was shortly afterwards at rester' on the charge of conspiring against Louis NV111. lie managed to escape upon the approach of Napoleon. and putting himself at the head of
the troops. Ile seized the citadel and held it for the Emperor, who made him a peer of France. In the Waterloo campaign Drouet commanded the First Army Corps; but, misunderstanding the Emperor's orders, wasted valuable time in a fruitless march between Lign• and Qua tre-Bras. After the capitulation of Paris he fled to Ba varia, where he resided until 1825, when he re turned to France. Ile received. in 1830, the command of the Twelfth 31ilitary District. with headquarters at Nantes. where he put down the Legitimist rising in La Vendee and arrested the de Berry. During 1834-35 he held the important office of Governor•Cteneral of Algeria, and in l843 was elevated to the rank of marshal. lie died January 25, 1844. Consult: .Vcitiec sat.
/a rie militaire du in MYr/HII Pro nit, ('erite par lni•nrenie (Paris. 1844) ; Sloane. Life of Yapoteon (New York, 1896).