Dominique-Catherine, marquis de Pérignon

Dominique-Catherine, marquis de Pérignon (born May 31, 1754, Grenade, Fr.—died Dec. 25, 1818, Paris) was a general and marshal of France, active during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. A retired officer of the royal army, Pérignon resumed active service in 1792. Operations against the Spaniards won him the rank of general and, in 1794, command of the Army of the Eastern Pyrenees. As ambassador to Madrid he negotiated the Spanish alliance (1796). While fighting in...