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Memories of an Imperial Officer. Volume III

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Louis François Lejeune was generously endowed with various abilities. However, these could only be realized as a result of the fundamental changes that affected all aspects of life and social strata in French society at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. Under the Old Regime, the son of a pastry chef had no chance of a military career, but during the Empire, he became a general and a baron. Moreover, even while serving on staff, our hero was by no means a "parquet officer." His "Siege of Saragossa," in which he participated in hand-to-hand combat and received two serious wounds, leaves no doubt about this.

Later, Lejeune carried out important diplomatic missions for Napoleon himself, including an inspection of the units of the First Army Corps in the spring of 1812, and, in the Emperor's opinion, he carried them out quite successfully. Even in peacetime, as mayor of Toulouse, he earned the sincere respect of most of its residents.

The third volume of this edition is largely devoted to the reviews of contemporaries and descendants about this extraordinary man.
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