General; Baron Louis Léopold Buquet Commander Légion d'H
The name Louis Léopold Buquet is the first name on the monument.
The monument is in Preville cemetery, Nancy, Lorraine, France.
There are 138 other graves within this cemetery that are listed within the GPR database.
Louis Léopold Buquet was buried in 1835. The actual date of death is not currently recorded on the GPR database but it may be on the grave monument photograph.
Louis Léopold Buquet age is given as 67.
Louis Léopold Buquet birth is given as 1768.
Louis Léopold Buquet is listed on the GPR grave numbered 241929.
Louis Léopold Buquet is listed as the first name on monument on the grave monument.
Louis Léopold Buquet has the record number 518906 within the GPR person name database table.
The record was added to the GPR on 14 September 2012
There are images available for the monument listing Louis Léopold Buquet (see grave detail page).
The follow note is stored against Louis Léopold Buquet record:
Buquet joined the French army in 1791; and rose to command the gendarmerie in Metz in 1799; before joining the organisation committee of the camp at Boulogne sur mer (in preparation for the invasion of England) in 1802. He was promoted to general; inspector-general of the Gendarmerie in 1808; and then of the French occupying force in Spain 1810-1814. From 1815; he was elected three times to the French Parliament to represent the Vosges département.