#marshals'save-the-date calendar

[northernmariette]

Marshals' Save-the-Date Calendar: the first March birthday boy

I managed to delete my Marshals' birthday calendar just as a slew of our military bigwigs are about to celebrate birthdays; so many were born in March, April and May. I do know that the first one on the list is Marshal Suchet, born March 2.

[northernmariette]

Thank you Josefa!

I can't post somehow, but I can still re-blog.

My Marshals' Save-the-Date Calendar shall now be known as the Napoleonic Bigwigs Save-the-Date Calendar. Submissions for inclusion are welcome and will be carefully considered. I reserve the right to be extremely picky.

Just because he appears on the Marshals table, Caulaincourt will be granted the great honour of inclusion. For extraordinary dedication, Général Bertrand also merits a place. I haven't checked their birthdays yet.

Napoleonic birthday calendar

A quick first attempt at a combined calender; I hope I have not accidentally dropped somebody on the way [searches floor]. Whom or what else should we add? I’ve already taken the liberty to add Junot and Duroc.

And just for the record: All the work was done by @northernmariette, I’m just posting on her behalf due to technical problems.

January

3 Jan 1777: Elisa Bonaparte-Baciocchi

7 Jan 1768: Joseph Bonaparte

🎖 10 Jan 1769: Marshal Ney

🎖 26 Jan 1763: Marshal Bernadotte

February

🎖 13 Feb 1768: Marshal Mortier

March

🎖 2 Mar 1770: Marshal Suchet

🎖 13 Mar 1763: Marshal Brune

20 Mar 1822: Napoléon II,

25 Mar 1782: Caroline Bonaparte-Murat

🎖 25 Mar 1767: Marshal Murat

27 Mar 1746: Charles (Carlo) Bonaparte

🎖 29 Mar 1769: Marshal Soult

April

10 Apr 1783: Hortense de Beauharnais-Bonaparte

🎖 10 Apr 1769: Marshal Lannes

🎖 13 Apr 1764: Marshal Gouvion Saint-Cyr

🎖 25 Apr 1767: Marshal Oudinot

🎖 29 Apr 1762: Marshal Jourdan

May

🎖 6 May 1758: Marshal Masséna

🎖 7 May 1763: Marshal Poniatowsky

🎖 10 May 1770: Marshal Davout

21 May 1775: Lucien Bonaparte

🎖 28 May 1735: Marshal Kellerman

🎖 31 May 1754: Marshal Pérignon

June

23 June 1763: Joséphine Bonaparte

July

🎖 20 Jul 1774: Marshal Marmont

🎖 31 Jul 1754: Marshal Moncey

August

🎖 6 Aug 1768: Marshal Bessières

15 Aug 1769: Napoléon Bonaparte

24 Aug 1750: Laetitia Ramolino-Bonaparte

September

2 Sept 1778: Louis Bonaparte

3 Sept 1781: Eugène de Beauharnais

25 Sept 1771: Junot

October

20 Oct 1780: Pauline Bonaparte

🎖 21 Oct 1759: Marshal Augereau

🎖 23 Oct 1766: Marshal Grouchy

🎖 25 Oct 1755: Marshal Lefebvre

25 Oct 1772: Duroc

November

15 Nov 1784: Jérôme Bonaparte

🎖 17 Nov 1765: Marshal Macdonald

🎖 20 Nov 1753: Marshal Berthier

December

🎖 7 Dec 1764: Marshal Victor

🎖 8 Dec 1742: Marshal Serurier

12 Dec 1791: Marie-Louise Bonaparte

[northernmariette]

I was mistaken when I posted my Marshals' Save-the-Date reminder earlier this month. Augereau's birthday is not on the 25th, it's on the 21st, just three days from now.

I'm a bit panicked because I'm still typing one-fingered on my phone's tiny screen, which keeps autocorrecting - to French! - everything I write, with sometimes incompréhensible results. It puts on accents too, as it did for "incompréhensible".

All this to say that what I intend to supply is likely to be a reblog, but nobody has to follow my sorry example: heretofore unposted tidbits are welcome and encouraged. I hope there will be many guests to the party!

[northernmariette]

Marshals'Save-the-Date Calendar, the November boys:

Just two this month, Macdonald on November 17, and Berthier three days later on the 20th.

Macdonald kindly wrote at least partial memoirs and was commented about by some of his contemporaries, while Berthier, though leaving no memoirs (dammit), was commented about by even more people. So there should be sufficient documentation out there to come up with some nice juicy tidbits.