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unusual facts about Claude Matthieu, Count Gardane


Camille Alphonse Trézel

After the Polish campaign, as a lieutenant, he was appointed acting aide to General Gardanne, in the embassy of France to Persia (1807–1808); aide to General Armand Charles Guilleminot on his return in 1809; he was secretary of the Committee on Delimitation of Illyria, was promoted to captain (1810), and transferred to the Spanish army.


Claude Matthieu, Count Gardane

The report which he sent to Champagny (dated April 23, 1809) on the state of Persia and the prospects of a successful invasion of India is of great interest.


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