Antoine-François Andréossy

Comte Antoine-François Andréossy (6 March 1761 – 10 September 1828) was a Franco-Italian nobleman. He served as a French Army artillery general, diplomat and parliamentarian.

Antoine-François Andréossy
S.E. M. le comte Andréossy
Nickname	Italian: Antonio Andreossi
Born	(1761-03-06)6 March 1761 Castelnaudary
Died	10 September 1828(1828-09-10) (aged 67) Montauban
Allegiance	Kingdom of France Kingdom of the French French First Republic First French Empire Bourbon Restoration (France)
Service/branch	French Army
Rank	General
Battles/wars	Dutch Civil War; French Revolutionary Wars Battle of the Bridge of Arcole Siege of Mantua; Napoleonic Wars
Relations	Dr. François Andréossi (great-grandfather)
Other work	Ambassador to Great Britain; Ambassador to Austrian Empire; Ambassador to Ottoman Empire; Deputy of the French Parliament

Works

Andréossy's works included the following:

• on artillery (with which arm he was most intimately connected throughout his military career):
  • Quelques idées relatives à l'usage de l'artillerie dans l'attaque et ... la défense des places (Metz);
  • Essai sur le tir des projectiles creux (Paris, 1826);
• on military history:
  • Campagne sur le Main el la Rednitz de l'armée gallo-batave (Paris, 1802);
  • Opérations des pontonniers en Italie . . . 1795-1796 (Paris, 1843).

Honours and titles

Titles

• - Knight of the Empire
• - Count of the Empire

Honours

• - Grand-croix, Order of Saint Louis
• - Grand-officier, Ordre de la Légion d'honneur
• - Chevalier, Order of Malta
• - Commandeur, Orders of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and St Lazarus
• - Grand-chancelier, Order of the Golden Fleece

Related pages

• French Revolutionary Wars: campaigns of 1798
• List of Ambassadors of France to the United Kingdom
• Armorial of Counts of the French Empire (in French)

References

• "Antoine, François Andréossy (1761 - 1828)", Mandats à l'Assemblée nationale ou à la Chambre des députés (17/11/1827 - 16/05/1830) (in French), Assemblée nationale, 2015, archived from the original on 23 September 2015, retrieved 25 April 2015
• "ASMP: Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques", ASMP (in French), archived from the original on 14 January 2013, retrieved 28 April 2015
• "C VILLANI à l'IUT de Nîmes le jeudi 7 Mai 2015", Lycée François Andréossy (in French), 1 April 2015, retrieved 28 April 2015
• "Salle des inventaires virtuelle", Salle des inventaires virtuelle (in French), retrieved 28 April 2015
• Jensen, Nathan D. (May 2014), "Antoine-François Andreossy", Arc de Triomphe, retrieved 28 April 2015

Attribution

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Andréossy, Antoine-François". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 971. Endnotes:
  • Marion, Notice nécrologique sur le Lt.-Général Comte Andréossy.
• This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Thomas, Joseph (1892), Universal pronouncing dictionary of biography and mythology (Aa, van der – Hyperius), vol. 1, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, p. 125

Further reading

• Chandler, David, Dictionary of the Napoleonic Wars
• "Les personnages", Histoire du Consulat et de l'Empire (in French), 26 January 2007, archived from the original on 15 January 2015, retrieved 28 April 2015

Other websites

• www.emd.terre.defense.gouv.fr Archived 2019-08-21 at the Wayback Machine
• Citizen Andréossy at www.jeanlannes.com
• www.napoleon-monuments.eu