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Édouard Mortier, duc de Trévise
1835Jul, 28

Édouard Mortier, duc de Trévise

Édouard Mortier, duc de Trévise, French general and politician, 15th Prime Minister of France (b. 1768)
Adolphe Édouard Casimir Joseph Mortier, 1st Duke of Trévise (13 February 1768 – 28 July 1835) was a French military commander and Marshal of the Empire under Napoleon I, who served during both the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He was one of 18 people killed in 1835 during Giuseppe Marco Fieschi's assassination attempt on King Louis Philippe I.

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