LOUIS GABRIEL SUCHET

LOUIS GABRIEL SUCHET, DUC D'ALBUFERA (1770-1826), marshal of France, born in Lyons; distinguished himself in Italy, Egypt, Austria, and Prussia, and became general in command in Aragon, by his success in ruling which last he gained the marshal's baton and a dukedom; he rejoined Napoleon during the Hundred Days; after Waterloo he lost his peerage, but recovered it in 1819.