COMTE JEAUME MATHIEU PHILIBERT

See also:

• COMTE JEAUME MATHIEU PHILIBERT SERURIER (1742--1819)

SERURIER (1742--1819)  , French soldier, was born at Laon of middle-class parent-age . After being lieutenant of the Laon militia, he entered the royal army, and served in the campaigns in Hanover (1759), Portugal (1762) and Corsica (1771) . At the beginning of the Revolution he had attained the rank of major, and in its course he became colonel, brigadier-general and finally general of division . He fought under Kellermann and B . L . J . Scherer in the army of the Alps in 1795, and under Bonaparte in Italy at Vico, Mondovi, Castiglione and Mantua . Besides his military qualities, he showed great administrative talent in governing Venice (1797) and Lucca (1798) . He helped Bonaparte in the coup d'etat of 18 Brumaire, and had a brilliant career under the empire, when he was made senatcr, count, marshal, and governor of the palace of the Invalides . In 1814, however, he voted for the downfall of Napoleon, and under the Restoration was made a peer of France . He was dismissed from all his posts for having joined Napoleon during the Hundred Days, and died in retirement . A statue has been raised to his memory at Laon .

See L . Tuetey, Un General de l'armee d'Italie,

Serurier (Paris, 1899) .