JEAN BAPTISTE DROUET, COMTE D'ERLON

JEAN BAPTISTE DROUET, COMTE D'ERLON (1765-1844), marshal of France, born at Rheims; distinguished in the wars of the Republic and the Empire; on Napoleon's return from Elba seized on the citadel of Lille, and held it for the emperor; commanded the first corps d'armée at Waterloo; left France at the Restoration; returned after the July Revolution; became governor of Algiers, and was created marshal.