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The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England. volume 3 (of 6), Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 3

Note 203 — BOOK III

Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation

Nicolas Charles Oudinot, Maréchal Duc de Reggio (1767-1847), one of the bravest of Napoleon's generals, was wounded no less than thirty-two times. Under the Restoration, to which he continued faithful in 1815, he became a peer of France, Major-General of the Royal Guard and Commander-in-Chief of the National Guard of Paris. Louis-Philippe appointed Oudinot Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honour (1839) and Governor of the Invalides (1842).—T.

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