Amédée Despans-Cubières
| Amédée Despans-Cubières | |
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| Nickname(s) | Despans-Cubières |
| Born | 4 March 1786 Paris |
| Died | 6 August 1853 (aged 67) Paris |
| Allegiance | France |
| Service/branch | Army |
| Rank | 1813 : Colonel 1837 : Lieutenant-general 1853 : Général de division |
| Battles/wars |
Napoleonic Wars (Battle of Eylau) Spanish expedition Morea expedition |
| Awards | 1807 : Légion d'honneur 1820 : Knight (order of Saint Louis) 1832: Commander (Légion d’honneur) 1839 : Peer of France 1840 : Grand officer (Légion d'honneur) Knight (Order of the Redeemer) |
| Other work |
Minister for War (1839 then 1840) |
General Amédée Louis de Cubières (4 March 1786, Paris – 6 August 1853, Paris), known as Despans-Cubières, was a French general and politician.
He was the illegitimate son of marquis Louis Pierre de Cubières (page to Louis XV and squire to Louis XVI then, in 1815, of Louis XVIII) by Madame Guesnon de Bonneuil (née Michelle Sentuary). As a child he played the role of Love at a festival given at the Hermitage at Versailles by his father and mother in honour of Marie-Antoinette. Aged 6, Amédée Despans-Cubières was briefly imprisoned with his family in the prison des Récollets of Versailles after the day of 10 August 1792, before he was made one of the "enfants de la liberté" raised by the state at the former abbey of Saint-Martin, before being welcomed into the Jordan family. In 1803, at the request of his mother Madame de Bonneuil, he was adopted by his father and took his name.
Placed in the prytanée at Saint-Cyr, he entered the army as a private in the 1st Cuirassier Regiment in 1803 and entering the military school at Fontainebleau on 23 October 1804, leaving it as a sous-lieutenant in the 15th Regiment of the Line. He served in that regiment in the Austerlitz, Prussian and Polish campaigns, being mentioned in despatches at Austerlitz and wounded at Jena (1806). Promoted to lieutenant on 30 November 1806 he received the cross of the Légion d'honneur at Eylau (1807).
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