Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty
Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty was born on May 30, 1768. See ranking, bio blurb, and everyone else born that day.
About Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty
Étienne-Marie-Antoine Champion, comte de Nansouty (French pronunciation: [etjɛn maʁi ɑ̃twan ʃɑ̃pjɔ̃ kɔ̃t də nɑ̃suti]; 30 May 1768 – 12 February 1815) was a French cavalry commander during the French Revolutionary Wars who rose to the rank of General of Division in 1803 and subsequently held important military commands during the Napoleonic Wars. Of noble Burgundian descent, he was a student at the Brienne military school, then was a graduate of the Paris military school. Nansouty began his military career in 1785, as a sub-lieutenant in the regiment Bourgogne-Infanterie, where his father had…