Blog category: 1823 french invasion of Spain
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Claude Victor Perrin, Duke of Belluno, Marshal of France
May 20, 2016
Claude Victor Perrin, the Duke of Belluno, was one of Napoleon’s marshals and one of the few senior Napoleonic officers who continued to serve in a high position under the Bourbons, as Louis XVIII’s Minister of War.
We must confess that fate, which sports with man, makes merry work with the affairs of this world.
Napoleon Bonaparte