Lauriston

Lauriston, ALEXANDRE JACQUES BERNARD LAW, MARQUIS DE, marshal and peer of France, was a grand-nephew of John Law, the financier, and was born at Pondicherry, 1st February 1768. He was Napoleon's comrade at the Artillery School, received rapid preferment in the army, and held diplomatic appointments at Copenhagen and London. After Austerlitz (1805) he took possession of Venice. He held high commands at Wagram (1809) and in the retreat from Moscow (1812). He fought at Bautzen (1813) and Katzbach, and was taken prisoner at Leipzig. Already ennobled, he was made a peer by Louis XVIII. as not having joined Napoleon during the Hundred Days, and became marquis in 1817 and marshal in 1821. He died 10th June 1828.