The last of Napoleon's Marshals dies in Venice

Auguste Frederique Louis Viesse de Marmont, Duc de Ragusa, reported to be the last surviving of Emperor Napoleon's Marshals dies in Venice at the age of 78. More notoriously, Marmont was the commander of the military forces that attempted to resist, with grapeshot, the Paris Revolution of 1830, after which he was exiled. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
Chronicle, The Annual Register or a View of the History and Politics of the Year 1852 (London: F. & J. Rivington, 1853), 263-264.
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