Guilin Laurent Bizanet

Guilin Laurent Bizanet (; 10 August 175518 April 1836) was a Republican French Revolutionary General who served during the American Revolutionary War, French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.

Life After volunteering for the army, he became a brigadier-general on 22August 1793 and a divisional general on 10April 1794. He was a defender at Monaco in 1793 and at the end of the French Consulate in 1804 became the commander of the armies in Marseille.

He was named commandant at the fortress of Bergen op Zoom in 1810 and successfully repelled a night attack on 8March 1814 led by General Sir Thomas Graham. After the attack, Graham wrote in a despatch to London:"Sir ... I am anxious too to do justice to the conduct of General Bizanet, which, truly characteristic of a brave man, has been marked from the first with the most kind and humane attentions to the prisoners."

Bizanet was commander of Marseille during the Hundred Days under Marshal Guillaume Brune.

Awards His name is engraved on the 40th Column of the Arc de Triomph