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was unavailable or, after 1626, suppressed. Unlike the title of marshal, marshal general was rarely granted to active military commanders. Rather, especially in the 18th and 19th centuries, it was an end-of-career reward for particularly deserving or loyal marshals.
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Broglie emigrated the same day the king signed the title papers. He therefore never exercised the functions of marshal general and was removed from the list of marshals of France in 1792.
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Fadi El Hage, « Comment la Révolution abolit la dignité de maréchal de France », Annales historiques de la Révolution française, 354 | 2008, 51-75.
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This title was bestowed only on Marshals of France, usually when the title of
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French
Marshal of France
Constable of France


pre-revolutionary
kingdom of France
Charles de Gontaut, duc de Biron
Admiral of France
François de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguières
Constable of France
Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, vicomte de Turenne
Claude-Louis-Hector de Villars
Maurice, comte de Saxe
Victor François de Broglie, 2nd Duke of Broglie
July Monarchy
House of Orléans
Louis Philippe
Jean-de-Dieu Soult
Marshal of the Empire
Fadi El Hage, « Comment la Révolution abolit la dignité de maréchal de France », Annales historiques de la Révolution française, 354 | 2008, 51-75.
Harper Encyclopedia of Military Biography
Trevor N. Dupuy

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