French general
Napoleon's farewell to the Imperial Guard in the Cheval-Blanc (White Horse) courtyard of the Palace of Fontainebleau.
Jean-Martin Petit (22 July 1772 in Paris – 8 June 1856 in Paris) was a French General during the Napoleonic Wars.
At the time of Napoleon's exile to Elba in 1814, Petit was the commander of the elite Old Guard (France)[2]
Notes
- ^ Napoleon, Andrew Roberts, p764.
References
- Mullié, Charles (1852), "Jean Martin Petit" , Biographie des célébrités militaires des armées de terre et de mer de 1789 à 1850
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