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In 1783 he married Cathérine Hübscher, with whom he had 14 children, although all predeceased him. According to Louise Fusil his last son, a general, died in Vilna on 19 December 1812. Lefebvre was in Paris at the time of the Storming of the Bastille in 1789 and, like his close friend, Michel Ordener , he embraced the French Revolution .
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In 1783 he married Cathérine Hübscher with whom he had 14 children, although none living to survive him (his last son died in battle in 1812). ... Lefebvre was from Rouffach, Alsace, the son of a Hussar.
François-Joseph Lefebvre, duke de Dantzig (born Oct. 20, 1755, Rouffach, Fr.—died Sept. 14, 1820, Paris) was a French general who was one of the 18 marshals of the empire appointed by Napoleon in May 1804. Lefebvre, the son of an Alsatian miller, worked for a time as a clerk before entering a military career in the French Guards in 1773.
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A short biography (with portrait) of François Joseph Lefebvre (1755-1820), Duke of Dantzig, Marshal of the First French Empire.
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Son of a hussar, Lefebvre enlists at the age of 18 in the regiment of the French Guards. Fifteen years later, in 1789, he is a sergeant. The Revolution breaks out. He is wounded while protecting the royal family.
François Joseph Lefebvre, Duke of Danzig, was a French military commander of the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars, and one of the original eighteen Marshals of the Empire created by Napoleon.
