Pierre Dominique Garnier

Pierre Dominique Garnier
Pierre Dominique Garnier by artist Francesco Pascucci
Born	19 December 1756 (1756-12-19)
Died	11 May 1827 (1827-05-12) (aged 70)
Allegiance	France
Service/branch	Infantry
Rank	General of Division
Battles/wars	Assault on the Tuileries (1792) Siege of Toulon (1793) Battle of Saorgio (1794) Battle of Loano (1795) Montenotte Campaign (1796) Battle of Monte Redondo (1799) Battle of the Var (1800)
Awards	Légion d'Honneur, CC 1815

Pierre Dominique Garnier, born 19 December 1756 – died 11 May 1827, was a French general during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars. He enlisted in the French royal army in 1773 and served in the French West Indies. At the outbreak of the French Revolution he left his career as an architect and joined the National Guard. Continuing in the army, he enjoyed rapid promotion while fighting in several theaters during the War of the First Coalition. As a general of brigade he fought at Toulon and was elevated to the rank of general of division. After fighting at Loano in late 1795, he found himself under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte for the Montenotte Campaign in April 1796. Bonaparte had little use for Garnier, however. Garnier saw action in Italy during the War of the Second Coalition in 1799 and 1800. During the Napoleonic Wars he held reserve or garrison commands and retired from the military in 1816. His surname is one of the 660 names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe.

Garnier was born in Marseilles on 19 December 1756. The son of an architect, he enlisted as a foot soldier in the French royal army in 1773 and later served in the French West Indies for eight years. In 1784 he transferred to the Ile-de-France Dragoons and remained until 1788. After briefly pursuing a career as an architect, he joined the Marseilles National Guards in 1789. He was involved in the Assault on the Tuileries Palace on 10 August 1792. In this incident, the National Guards attacked the Swiss Guards and, after a sharp battle, massacred most of the survivors. Garnier fought in the Alps, on the Rhine, and in Italy. He earned promotion to general of brigade on 12 September 1793. He was responsible for suppressing the counter-revolution in the County of Nice. He participated in the attack on Mont Faron during the Siege of Toulon in late 1793.