Henri François Delaborde

Henri-François Delaborde (; 21 December 17643 February 1833) was a French general in the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars.

Early career

He was the son of a baker of Dijon. In 1783, Delaborde joined the Regiment of Condé Dragoons as a private. At the outbreak of the French Revolution he joined the 1st Battalion of Volunteers of the Côte-d'Or, and passing rapidly through all the junior grades, was made général de brigade after the combat of Rheinzabern (1793). which was part of Moreau's army.

Delaborde was in constant military employment during the Consulate and the early Empire and was made commander of the Legion of Honour in 1804. In 1813, he led the 3rd Division of the Young Guard until wounded in action at Pirna. In the following year he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor and was governor of the Castle of Compiègne. He joined Napoleon in the Hundred Days and became Chamberlain and a peer. Marked for punishment by the returning Bourbons, he was sent before a court-martial and only escaped condemnation through a technical flaw in the wording of the charge. The rest of his life was spent in retirement.

He was the father of the painter Henri Delaborde.