Laurent de Gouvion Saint Cyr


French Revolutionary Wars, Napoleonic Wars

He was born Laurent Gouvion in Toul, MeurtheetMoselle, the eldest child of JeanBaptiste Gouvion, a tanner, and his wife AnneMarie Mercier. He adopted the name SaintCyr after his mother, who had abandoned him at an early age.

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