Pierre de Ruel, marquis de Beurnonville
{{Short description|French general (1752–1821)}}
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| name = Pierre Riel
| honorific_suffix = Marquis de Beurnonville
| native_name_lang = fr
| image = Pierre Riel - marquis de Beurnonville.jpg
| caption = A portrait of the marquis sometime during the Revolution
| birth_date = 10 May 1752
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1821|04|23|1752|04|23|df=y}}
| birth_place = Champignol-lez-Mondeville, Champagne, Kingdom of France
| death_place = Paris, Kingdom of France
| allegiance = {{flag|Kingdom of France}}
{{flag|First French Republic}}
{{flag|First French Empire}}
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| branch = {{flagicon|Kingdom of France}} French Royal Army
{{flagicon|France|1798}} French Revolutionary Army
{{flagicon|France|1806}} French Imperial Army
25px French Royal Army
| rank = Marshal of France
| commands = Army of the Moselle
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Pierre de Ruel, marquis de Beurnonville (10 May 1752 – 23 April 1821) was a French general during the French Revolutionary Wars and later a marshal of France{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=834}} and Deputy Grand Master of Grand Orient de France.Jean-Claude Rochigneux, Maçons d'hier, maçonnerie d'aujourd'hui, Humanisme, Conform éditions, 2003, p. 39.Dictionnaire de la Franc-maçonnerie, page 138 (Daniel Ligou, Presses universitaires de France, 2006)
Biography
Bournonville was born at Champignol-lez-Mondeville, Aube.{{citation needed|date=July 2012}}
After service in the colonies, he married a wealthy Creole, Geneviève Gillot L'Étang. After his return to France, he purchased the post of lieutenant of the Swiss Guard of the count of Provence.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=834}}
During the French Revolution he was named lieutenant-general, and took an active part in the battles of Valmy and Jemmapes.{{sfn|Smith|1998|p=30}} Minister of War in February 1793, he denounced his old commander, Charles François Dumouriez, to the Convention, and was one of the four deputies sent to watch him.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=834}}
Handed over by Dumouriez to the Austrians on 3 April 1793, Beurnonville was not exchanged until November 1795. He entered the service again, commanded the Army of Sambre-et-Meuse and Army of the North, and was appointed inspector of infantry of the Army of England in 1798. He was sent as ambassador to Berlin in 1800, and to Madrid in 1802.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=834}}
Napoleon made him a senator and count of the empire. In 1814 he was a member of the provisional government organized after the abdication of Napoleon. He followed Louis XVIII to exile in Ghent, and after the second restoration was made marquis and marshal of France (1816).{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=834}}
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References
- {{cite web|last=Clerget |first=Charles |title=Tableaux des Armées Françaises pendant les Guerres de la Révolution |year=1905 |location=Paris |publisher=Librarie Militaire R. Chapelot et Cie |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dwAbAAAAYAAJ |access-date=3 July 2015 }}
- {{cite book|last=Smith |first=Digby |title=The Napoleonic Wars Data Book |location=London |publisher=Greenhill |year=1998 |isbn=1-85367-276-9}}
;Attribution
- {{EB1911|wstitle=Beurnonville, Pierre de Ruel |volume=3 |page=834 }} Endnote:
- See A Chaquet, Les Guerres de la Révolution (Paris, 1886).
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{{succession box | title=Commander-in-chief of the Army of the Moselle | before=Étienne Deprez-Crassier | after=René Charles de Ligniville | years=15 November 1792 – 23 January 1793 }}
{{succession box | title=Commander-in-chief of the Army of the North | before=Joseph Souham | after=Jean François Aimé Dejean | years=4 April – 15 September 1796 }}
{{succession box | title=Commander-in-chief of the Army of Sambre-et-Meuse | before=Jean-Baptiste Jourdan | after=Jean Étienne Championnet | years=23 September 1796 – 23 January 1797 }}
{{succession box | title=Commander-in-chief of the Army of the North | before=Jean François Aimé Dejean | after=Jacques MacDonald | years=25 September 1797 – 2 January 1798 }}
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Source: {{cite book|last=Clerget |first=Charles |title=Tableaux des Armées Françaises pendant les Guerres de la Révolution |year=1905 |location=Paris |publisher=Librarie Militaire R. Chapelot et Cie |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dwAbAAAAYAAJ |access-date=3 July 2015 }}
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