Armand Samuel de Marescot

Armand Samuel de Marescot, born in Tours on 1 March 1758, died 5 November 1832 at Castle Chaslay near Montoire Loir-et-Cher was a French general of engineering in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.

MARESCOT is one of the names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe, on Column 14.

He repelled an attack in October 1796 by Friedrich Freiherr von Hotze, then later defended the fortifications of Kehl until its surrender in early 1797.

He served in the Swiss campaign until the peace of 1801, and later in the War of the Third Coalition.

He died at Vendome on 25 December 1832 and his name is on the east side of the Arc de Triomphe.