Claude Victor Perrin, Duc de Belluno

Claude VictorPerrin, First Duc de Belluno was a French soldier and military commander during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He was made a Marshal of France in 1807 by Napoleon.

He was born at Lamarche in the Vosges, son of Charles Perrin and wife Marie Anne Floriot, paternal grandson of Charles Perrin and wife Gabrielle Guerin, born in 1696, and greatgrandson of Pierre Perrin and wife Anne Louvire. In 1781 he entered the army as a private soldier, and after ten years service he received his discharge and settled at Valence. Soon afterwards he joined the local volunteers, and distinguishing himself in the war on the Alpine frontier, in less than a year he had risen to the command of a battalion. In Drme, Valence, onMay 1791 he married Jeanne Josephine Muguet, by whom he had issue which was extinct in the male line by 1917.

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