His father was a councilor of the provincial Parlement of Aix[1] who was ennobled in 1770 for his services at the legal courts there.
He entered service at age 17 in the infantry regiment of the Soissonnais. In the last campaigns of the American Revolution, he served as sub-lieutenant under General Rochambeau. His face was disfigured in battle at the siege of Yorktown[2] and he returned to France as a captain.
He headed the First National Battalion of volunteers of Bouches-du-Rhône. In the French Revolutionary Wars, he demonstrated skill and bravery often, becoming a brigadier general in 1796.
Under General André Masséna, he took part in the 1799 defense of Genoa. He became the governor of Belle-Île-en-Mer in 1803, then of Mantua in 1806. At Mantua, he honored Virgil with a monument. With some pomp and circumstance, he transferred the ashes of Ariosto to the University of Ferrara where they received the homage due to them. At Verona, he restored the Arena, one of the most interesting of Roman antiquities.
Louis XVIII conferred upon him the departments of Bouches-du-Rhône and Vaucluse. Napoleon recalled him to duty during the Hundred Days to serve at Metz, where he remained until mid-October 1815, after which he retired permanently from active duty.
His brother attained a doctorate in law in 1781, became a lawyer, and then prefect of Finistère from 1805 to 1815. Another brother held the bishopric of Digne from 1805 to 1838, probably a nepotistic Napoleonic appointment.
His name is engraved on the south side of the Arc de Triomphe.
References
^Charles Mullié. "Sextius Alexandre François de Miollis", in Biographie des célébrités militaires des armées de terre et de mer de 1789 à 1850. Paris, 1852 (edition) (Wikisource)
^Henri Auréas. Un General de Napoleon: Miollis. Edition of Belles Lettres, Strasbourg, 1961. Preface by Marcel Dunan.
March 04, 2023
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