General Charles Stanislas Lefebvre Officer Légion d'Hon
The name Charles Stanislas Lefebvre is the first name on the monument.
The monument is in Pere Lachaise (Pt2) cemetery, Paris, Paris, France.
There are 76 other graves within this cemetery that are listed within the GPR database.
Charles Stanislas Lefebvre was buried in 1849. The actual date of death is not currently recorded on the GPR database but it may be on the grave monument photograph.
Charles Stanislas Lefebvre age is given as 79.
Charles Stanislas Lefebvre calculated year of birth is 1770.
Charles Stanislas Lefebvre is listed on the GPR grave numbered 329729.
Charles Stanislas Lefebvre is listed as the first name on monument on the grave monument.
Charles Stanislas Lefebvre has the record number 702754 within the GPR person name database table.
The record was added to the GPR on 18 August 2013
There is one image available for the monument listing Charles Stanislas Lefebvre (see grave detail page).
The follow note is stored against Charles Stanislas Lefebvre record:
Born in Hirson in the Aisne region; Lefebvre came from a family of magistrates. He was commissioned in 1792 and sent to Pondichery; and was captured in 1793 by the British during the siege. When he was released; he was allowed to join his uncle who was Bishop of Adran and prime minister of the king of Cochinchine; and served as 'war mandarin' and commander of the engineers. Reclaimed by the British as a prisoner-of-war and destined for internment in England; he escaped after the capture of his prison ship and regained France; where he was appointed ADC to the new French commander in India; Decaen. He returned to India from 1803-1810; and escaped with the Decaen from the the siege of Mauritius; and continued to serve with Decaen in Spain in 1811-1813. In 1814 he was appointed general and head of the 2nd army of reservists in Paris. In January 1815 he was sent to Nimes; but he rallied to Napoléon during 'the Hundred Days'. He was charged with negociating with the Duc d'Angouleme; son of Louis XVIII; and subsequently survived an assasination attempt in Montpellier. He lived for several years on Mauritius after his retirement; and was the author of a Persian and Urdu dictionary and grammar. He was granted the honorary title of marshal in 1823.