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Charles Nicolas Victor Oudinot, 2nd Duc de Reggio (3 November 1791 in

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– 7 June 1863 in Bar-le-Duc), the eldest son of

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and Charlotte Derlin, also made a military career. He served through the later campaigns of Napoleon, 1809–1814, and was promoted to major in 1814 for gallant conduct. Unlike his father he was a cavalryman, and after retirement during the early years of the

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held command of the cavalry school at

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(1822–1830) and was inspector-general of cavalry (1836–1848). Oudinot is chiefly known as the commander of the French expedition that

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and took

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in 1849, crushing the short-lived

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and re-establishing the temporal power of

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, under the protection of French arms. His brief published account presents the French view of the events. After

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's ''coup d'état'' of 2 December 1851, when he took a prominent part in the resistance in favour of the Second Republic, he retired from military and political life, though remaining in Paris. Beside the brief memoir of his Italian operations in 1849, he wrote several works of more specialized interest, on military ranks and orders, the use of soldiers in constructing public works and cavalry and its proper housing: ''Aperçu historique sur la dignité de marechal de France'' (1833); ''Considérations sur les ordres militaires de Saint Louis, &c''. (1833); "De L'Italie et de ses Forces Militaires" (1835); ''L'Emploi des troupes aux grands travaux d'utilité publique'' (1839); ''De la Cavalerie el du casernement des troupes à cheval'' (1840); ''Des Remontes de l'armée'' (1840). In the

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(1990), Oudinot is played by

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