Louis Chrétien Carrière

Louis-Chrétien Carrière, baron de Beaumont (; 24 April 1771 – 16 December 1813) was a French cavalry general during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.

Early career

Born in Malplacey, near Brouchy, on 24 April 1771, Carrière joined the Queen's Dragoons (later renamed the 6th Dragoons) as a trooper on 1 April 1788. In 1792 he began service in the Army of the North, and due to his actions during the attack on the Austrian camp at Maulde, he was promoted to Second lieutenant in the on 23 November 1792 and full Lieutenant on 20 April the following year.

On 23 September 1793 Carrière was appointed aide-de-camp to General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas (also a former trooper in the 6th Dragoons) and served with him in the Army of the West putting down the revolt in the Vendée until 1796. He was appointed deputy to the General Staff of the Army of Italy on 22 September 1796, and made a captain on 5 October the same year. Acting once more as Dumas' aide-de-camp, he took part in the French invasion of Egypt, following him to the province of Giza and helping to chase out the Arabs. then the German light cavalry of XII Corps under Oudinot in August 1813. Briefly attached to IV Corps, he fought at Wartenburg on 3 October. Once more under Marmont's command, he fought at Leipzig and Hanau. Her letters to Soult, Chateaubriand, Charles X of France and John VI of Portugal still survive.

The name "Beaumont" appears engraved on Column 17 of the Arc de Triomphe, but it probably refers to Marc Antoine de Beaumont, also a Général de division and brother-in-law to Marshal Davout.