biography
| name: |
Soult, Nicolas Jean de Dieu
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pronunciation:
[soolt]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1769–1851)
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| biography:
| French marshal, born in Saint-Amans-la-Bastide, S France. Created marshal of France by Napoleon in 1804, he led the French armies in the Peninsular War (1808–14) until defeated at Toulouse (1814). A skilled opportunist, he turned Royalist after Napoleon's abdication, but joined him in the Hundred Days, acting as his chief-of-staff at Waterloo. Exiled at the Second Restoration (1815) until 1819, he was gradually restored to all his honours, and presided over three ministries of Louis Philippe (1832–4, 1839–40, 1840–7), and once again professed himself to be a republican when Louis was overthrown in 1848. |
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