microcosme11: Jean-Baptiste Cyrus de Timbrune de Thiembronne, Comte de Valence (1757–1822). Ro
microcosme11: Jean-Baptiste Cyrus de Timbrune de Thiembronne, Comte de Valence (1757–1822). Royal, Revolutionary and Napoleonic officer. General of Division. Emperor Napoleon named him to lead an infantry division in the Peninsular War where he led Polish troops at Ciudad Real and Almonacid in 1809. He commanded a heavy cavalry division during the French invasion of Russia leading his horsemen at Borodino and Vyazma. He served with Paul Grenier and Horace Sébastiani in the Hundred Days. After the Bourbon Restoration he entered the Chamber of Peers in 1819 and died in 1822. VALENCE is one of the names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe, on Column 4. (portrait by Merry-Joseph Blondel) -Wikipedia -- source link
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