Guillaume Emmanuel Guignard, vicomte de Saint-Priest

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The Vicomte de Saint-Priest, by George Dawe from the Military Gallery of the Winter Palace
The Vicomte de Saint-Priest, by George Dawe from the Military Gallery of the Winter Palace

Guillaume Emmanuel Guignard, vicomte de Saint-Priest (1776-1814) was a French émigré general who fought in the Russian army during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.

He was the eldest son of prominent émigré diplomat François-Emmanuel Guignard, comte de Saint-Priest (1735-1821), one of King Louis XVI of France's last ministers.

Guillaume Emmanuel became a major-general in the Russian army under Czar Alexander I of Russia, and fought against the forces of Napoleon. He was defeated and mortally wounded during the 1814 Allied invasion of France in the battle of Reims and died two weeks later at Laon.