Paul Thiébault

Paul Charles François Adrien Henri Dieudonné Thiébault (French pronunciation: [pɔl ʃaʁl fʁɑ̃swa adʁijɛ̃ ɑ̃ʁi djødɔne tjebo]; 14 December 1769, Berlin – 14 October 1846, Paris) was a general who fought in Napoleon I's army.

His father was Dieudonné Thiébault, a professor in the military school in Berlin and a friend of Frederick II of Prussia.

On that date he volunteered for the Butte des Moulins battalion, but was invalided out on health grounds the following November.

[1] He was made a general in 1801 and commanded the 2nd brigade of the 1st infantry division at Austerlitz, in support of Vandamme, making him part of the army corps which mounted the assault and took the Pratzen plateau.

Published in 1895, with an English translation appearing the next year, his memoirs are a useful source for the history of the First French Empire, filling in details and giving often critical assessments of major figures.

Thiébault's name engraved on the 35th and 36th columns of the Arc de Triomphe .
His tomb in the cimetière du Père-Lachaise (division 39).