Dominique Catherine de Pérignon
| Catherine-Dominique de Pérignon | |
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Catherine-Dominique de Pérignon
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| Born |
31 May 1754 Grenade-sur-Garonne, Kingdom of France |
| Died |
25 December 1818 (aged 64) Paris, Kingdom of France |
| Allegiance |
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| Years of service | 1769–1818 |
| Commands held | Armée des Pyrénées orientales |
| Battles/wars |
French Revolutionary Wars Napoleonic Wars |
| Awards |
Legion of Honour Order of Saint Louis Names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe |
Catherine-Dominique de Pérignon, 1st Marquis de Grenade (31 May 1754 – 25 December 1818) was Marshal of France.
He was born to a family of small nobility in Grenade-sur-Garonne, Languedoc. After a roturier appointment in the grenadier corps of the Aquitaine Regiment, he retired to his estate. Pérignon welcomed the French Revolution, and gained a seat in the Legislative Assembly (1791), where he sat on the Right, but soon resigned and made his military career during the French Revolutionary Wars.
In 1793-1795 he held commands in the Army of the Eastern Pyrenees, defeating the Spanish troops at the battle of Escola with "a sombre kind of energy". He succeeded Jacques François Dugommier as army commander after that general's death at the Battle of the Black Mountain. He successfully concluded the Siege of Roses in early 1795. In 1796, he was elected by Haute-Garonne to the Council of Five Hundred. He became the French Directory's ambassador to Spain, concluding the Treaty of San Ildefonso against the Kingdom of Great Britain.
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