Louis Charles Antoine Desaix

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English: Louis Charles Antoine Desaix (August 17, 1768 - June 14, 1800) was a French General and military leader. (According to the usage of the time, in order to be distinguished from his brother, he took the name Louis Charles Antoine Desaix de Veygoux.)
Français : Louis Charles Antoine Desaix est un général français né à Ayat-sur-Sioule, en Auvergne, (France)
Galego: Louis Charles Antoine Desaix foi un xeneral francés nacido en Ayat-sur-Sioule
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[edit] Portraits

[edit] Paintings

Desaix, painted by Andrea Appiani, 1800/1801

The Death of Desaix 1806, painted by Jean Broc, 1806

[edit] Engraving

[edit] Drawn when Desaix was alive

Portrait (1798) By Jean Urbain Guérin, 1760 - 1836

[edit] Sculpture

[edit] Great St. Bernard Pass

This bust was carried out according to his death mask by Angelo Pizzi in Milan.

[edit] Palace of Versailles

The bust of Desaix by Joseph Chinard (Musée du Château de Versailles).

[edit] Monuments

[edit] Clermont-Ferrand (Place de Jaude)

Sculpted by Nanteuil, 1848
Inauguration desaix detail.jpg
Jaude 25 10 2005.jpg
Inauguration desaix dos.jpg

[edit] Strasbourg (Place du Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny)

Cenotaph dedicated to Desaix in the Île aux Épis near Strasbourg, by Frédéric Weinbrenner, (Architect) and Landolin Ohmacht, (Sculptor), 1802

Actual view in Strasbourg

Detail showing Desaix's death

[edit] Paris (Musée du Louvre)

Statue of Desaix (Musée du Louvre).


[edit] Other

Signature
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