Angerean

Angerean, PIERRE FRANÇOIS CHARLES, Duke of Castiglione, marshal and peer of France, one of the most brilliant and intrepid of that band of general officers whom Napoleon gathered around himself, was the son of a Paris fruiterer, and was born in 1757. After serving in the French and Neapolitan armies, he settled in Naples as a fencing-master in 1787. In 1792 he volunteered into the French revolutionary army, and in less than three years was made a general of division. In 1795 he accompanied the army to Italy, where he greatly distinguished himself, gaining glory in the battles of Lodi, Castiglione (in 1796, from which he afterwards received his title), and Roveredo. At Paris, in 1797, he carried through the coup d'état of the 4th September, and he soon became a supporter of Napoleon. In 1801 he received the command of the army in Holland. In 1804 he was made a marshal; commanded a wing at Jena and at Eylau; was governor at Berlin, and fought at Leipzig in 1813. He sat in the chamber of peers after the restoration, and died in 1816.