Armand-Charles Guilleminot

Armand Charles Guilleminot ( , ; 2 March 1774–14 March 1840) was a French major general during the Napoleonic Wars. He is described as having been very intelligent, merciful, generous, resourceful, and experienced. He had 7 siblings: Anne (c. 1771), Julie-Ann (c. 1776), Marie-Françoise (c. 1777), Amable-Joseph-Claude (c. 1778), Pierre-Marie (c. 1779), Isabelle (c. 1781), and Adélaïde-Thérèse (c. 1783).

He entered the army in July 1789 at age 15 when he volunteered for the 9th Battalion of the National Guard of Dunkirk to fight the House of Austria, including in the Brabant Revolution. He then served in the Army of the North under Dumouriez, working as aide-de-camp to General Souham at the Battle of Tourcoing. Following his stint in prison, he joined the Army of Sambre and Meuse and became a lieutenant (1796) and later a captain (1797); he then moved to the Army of Mainz.

In 1802, Guilleminot was working in cartography services that were an attaché to the German Army. Guilleminot was appointed to chief of staff to Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry by Marshal Davout in the meantime. Days before the Battle of Waterloo, Guilleminot moved to serve in the Hundred Days battle as second-in-command of Jérôme Bonaparte's division.

At this point, Guilleminot transitioned from an active military career into a more administrative capacity. Eugène (1806—1825), Henriette Aimée (1811—1882), and Augustine Hortense (1812—1849). When Aimée died in 1837, he remarried Henriette-Aimée "Marie" Ebray, the following year. Her first marriage was to the son of Nicholas Villeroy; they had at least one son, Nicolas-Henry-Charles, before Villeroy died in 1830.

Guilleminot suffered from illness for a long time and eventually went to Baden, Germany for a change of air, hoping it would help.

Honours Following the Battle of Medina in 1808, he was awarded the officer's cross for the Legion of Honour. In 1810, he was recognized as a Commander of the Iron Crown and a knight of the Military Order of Max Joseph.