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Guillaume Emmanuel Guignard, vicomte de Saint-Priest

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Guillaume Emmanuel Guignard de Saint-Priest
Guillaume Emmanuel Guignard by George Dawe
Born4 March 1776
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
Died29 March 1814 (aged 38)
Laon, France
Allegiance Russian Empire
RankMajor-General
Battles / wars
Awards

Guillaume Emmanuel Guignard, vicomte de Saint-Priest (4 March 1776, in Constantinople – 29 March 1814) was a French émigré general who fought in the Russian army during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.

He was the eldest son of prominent émigré diplomat François-Emmanuel Guignard, comte de Saint-Priest (1735–1821), one of King Louis XVI of France's last ministers, and Constance Wilhelmine de Saint-Priest.

Guillaume Emmanuel became a Major-General in the Russian army under Emperor Alexander I of Russia, and fought against the forces of Napoleon.[1] Some weeks before the Battle of Leipzig, he and his cavalry finally defeated the troops of French brigade general François Basile Azemar [fr] in the Battle of Großdrebnitz. Saint-Priest was defeated and mortally wounded during the 1814 Allied invasion of France in the Battle of Reims and died two weeks later at Laon.

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  1. ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Saint Priest, François Emmanuel Guignard s.v. Guillaume Emmanuel" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 24 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 42.