Louis Partouneaux (26 September 1770 – 14 January 1835) led an infantry division during the First French Empire of

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. He joined the army of the

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in 1791 and fought the Sardinians. He served at Toulon in 1793 and at Rivoli and Salorno in 1797. He fought at Verona and Magnano in 1799 and received promotion to

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. At Novi later that year he was wounded and captured. Promoted again, he commanded a division at

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in 1805 and in Naples in 1806. At the Berezina in 1812 his division was surrounded and he was captured. After the Napoleonic Wars he was elected to the

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in 1824. He held various posts until his retirement in 1832 and died of a stroke in 1835. Partouneaux is one of the names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe on Column 26.

Career

He was a brigadier in

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's division at the Battle of Magnano on 5 April 1799. His command included 1,000 French soldiers of the 3rd Line Demi-Brigade and 800 men of the 1st Battalion of the 2nd Polish Legion. The other brigadier in the division was Gaspard Amédée Gardanne. At 5:00 PM the village of Dossobuono was captured. Later that evening the Austrians launched a powerful counterattack which recaptured Dossobuono despite strong resistance by Partouneaux's brigade. In 1812, Partouneaux was appointed commander of the 12th Division, which was part of Marshal

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's IX Corps. The 1st Brigade consisted of the 10th and 29th Line Infantry Regiments, the 2nd Brigade included the 125th Line and a Provisional Line Infantry Regiment, while the 3rd Brigade had the 44th and 126th Line Infantry Regiments. The provisional regiment was formed from individual battalions of the 36th, 51st, and 55th Line.Post (1910), p. 533

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