MILITARY PERSONNEL

Jacques Leroy de Saint-Arnaud

1798 - 1854

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Armand-Jacques Leroy de Saint-Arnaud (20 August 1798 – 29 September 1854) was a French soldier and Marshal of France. He served as French Minister of War until the Crimean War when he became Commander-in-chief of the army of the East. He was a key conspirator in the 1851 French coup d'état which dissolved the National Assembly, granted dictatorial powers to Napoleon III and caused the dissolution of the French Second Republic. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jacques Leroy de Saint-Arnaud is the 1,152nd most popular military personnel (up from 1,340th in 2019), the 2,933rd most popular biography from France (up from 3,251st in 2019) and the 109th most popular French Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Jacques Leroy de Saint-Arnaud ranks 1,152 out of 2,058Before him are Nicolas Luckner, Piet Cronjé, Hans Cramer, Ludwig Kübler, Günther Lützow, and Tōdō Takatora. After him are Alexander von Linsingen, Shurahbil ibn Hasana, Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon, Walter Krupinski, Johanna Wolf, and Arthur Percival.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1798, Jacques Leroy de Saint-Arnaud ranks 27Before him are Dionysios Solomos, Jules Armand Dufaure, Christian August II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, Andries Pretorius, Massimo d'Azeglio, and Thomas Henderson. After him are Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, Macedonio Melloni, Charles Wilkes, Abigail Fillmore, Alexei Lvov, and Carl Blechen. Among people deceased in 1854, Jacques Leroy de Saint-Arnaud ranks 24Before him are John Martin, Kamehameha III, Caroline of Hesse-Homburg, Nicolás Bravo, Arthur Aikin, and Pierre Alphonse Laurent. After him are Émilie de Villeneuve, Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel, Macedonio Melloni, Abdullah Abdul Kadir, Vatroslav Lisinski, and Silvio Pellico.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jacques Leroy de Saint-Arnaud ranks 2,933 out of 6,770Before him are Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant (1845), Jean Vincent (1930), Gilbert, Duke of Lorraine (890), Jean du Bellay (1492), Zino Francescatti (1902), and Jean du Vergier de Hauranne (1581). After him are Princess Clotilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1846), Fulk II, Count of Anjou (920), Ismaël Bullialdus (1605), Henri Ernest Baillon (1827), Joseph Achille Le Bel (1847), and Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon (1765).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In France

Among military personnels born in France, Jacques Leroy de Saint-Arnaud ranks 109Before him are Pierre Dupont de l'Étang (1765), Wilhelm Falley (1897), Gaston Billotte (1875), Jacques Massu (1908), Abraham Duquesne (1610), and Claude Alexandre de Bonneval (1675). After him are Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon (1765), Soliman Pasha al-Faransawi (1788), Charles Mangin (1866), Claude François de Malet (1754), Roussel de Bailleul (1100), and Adolphe Pégoud (1889).