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Jean-de-Dieu Soult

1769 - 1851

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Marshal General Jean-de-Dieu Soult, 1st Duke of Dalmatia (French: [ʒɑ̃dədjø sult]; 29 March 1769 – 26 November 1851) was a French general and statesman. He was a Marshal of the Empire during the Napoleonic Wars, and served three times as President of the Council of Ministers (prime minister) of France. Son of a country notary from southern France, Soult enlisted in the French Royal Army in 1785 and quickly rose through the ranks during the French Revolution. He was promoted to brigadier general after distinguishing himself at the Battle of Fleurus in 1794, and by 1799 he was a division general. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean-de-Dieu Soult is the 134th most popular military personnel (up from 175th in 2019), the 473rd most popular biography from France (up from 568th in 2019) and the 12th most popular French Military Personnel.

Jean-de-Dieu Soult, 1st Duke of Dalmatia, was a French general and statesman, named Marshal of the Empire in 1804 and often called Marshal Soult. Soult is most famous for his victory at the Battle of Austerlitz in 1805.

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Among military personnels, Jean-de-Dieu Soult ranks 134 out of 2,058. Before him are Muhammad bin Qasim, Semyon Timoshenko, Cimon, Louis-Nicolas Davout, Vasily Chuikov, and Hermann Hoth. After him are Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Axel von Fersen the Younger, Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, Narses, Ludwig Beck, and Abu Muslim.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1769, Jean-de-Dieu Soult ranks 7. Before him are Napoleon, Alexander von Humboldt, Muhammad Ali of Egypt, Georges Cuvier, Michel Ney, and Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. After him are Jean Lannes, Ivan Krylov, Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, André-Jacques Garnerin, Ivan Kotliarevsky, and Józef Elsner. Among people deceased in 1851, Jean-de-Dieu Soult ranks 7. Before him are Hans Christian Ørsted, Marie Thérèse of France, Mary Shelley, Louis Daguerre, J. M. W. Turner, and Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover. After him are James Fenimore Cooper, Karl Drais, Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, Princess Augusta of Bavaria, and Gaspare Spontini.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-de-Dieu Soult ranks 473 out of 6,770. Before him are Étienne Bonnot de Condillac (1714), Gaspard Monge (1746), Louis III of France (863), Louis-Nicolas Davout (1770), François-Noël Babeuf (1760), and Lazare Carnot (1753). After him are Jean-François Lyotard (1924), Albert Lebrun (1871), Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron (1799), Pytheas (-380), Louis Néel (1904), and Paul Henri Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant (1852).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In France

Among military personnels born in France, Jean-de-Dieu Soult ranks 12. Before him are Alfred Dreyfus (1859), Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan (1611), Eugène de Beauharnais (1781), Ferdinand Foch (1851), Theodor Eicke (1892), and Louis-Nicolas Davout (1770). After him are André Masséna (1758), Joseph Joffre (1852), Jean Lannes (1769), Louis-Alexandre Berthier (1753), Louis, Grand Condé (1621), and Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse (1045).

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