Antoine Noguès

Antoine Noguès was born on 7 May 1777 in Castelnau-Rivière-Basse, Hautes-Pyrénées.[1][2] His father, Antoine Noguès, was a landowner in Castelnau-Rivière-Basse; his mother was Marie Rangon.[1] His elder brother, Jean-François-Xavier Noguès, also became a general.[1]

Noguès joined the Army of the Eastern Pyrenees on 3 February 1792.[1] He was appointed as second lieutenant in 1793, aide-de-camp to Jean Lannes in 1795, and lieutenant followed by captain in 1796.[1] He served in Italy in 1801–1802, and in the Antilles in 1802–1803.[1] He was wounded in Saint Lucia in 1803 and promoted to battalion chief.[1] Upon returning to France, he became an aide-de-camp to Pierre Augereau, and he served in the Grande Armée from 1805 to 1806, when he became lieutenant colonel.[1] He served as a colonel in Germany from 1806 to 1808, and as Chief of the Defence Staff in Puigcerdà, Spain from 1811 to 1813.[1]

Noguès served as brigadier general in Girona, Catalonia and Aragon from 1813 to 1814.[1] He joined the Army of the North in 1815, and he served in the Hundred Days and the Waterloo Campaign.[1] He commanded the Hautes-Pyrénées from 1818 to 1830, and the Basses-Pyrénées from 1830 to 1848.[1]

Noguès became a commander of the Legion of Honour.[1]

Noguès married Jenny, the daughter of Henri Saint-Pierre-Lespéret.[1] She was the godmother of Jenny Foch, the sister of Marshal Ferdinand Foch.[1]

Noguès died on 21 December 1853 in Jû-Belloc, Gers.[3] His memoirs were edited by Baron André de Maricourt in 1922.[1]

• Noguès, Antoine (1922). de Maricourt, André (ed.). Mémoires du général Noguès sur les guerres de l'Empire : 1777-1853. Paris: Lemerre. OCLC 422417070.