Count d'Erlon
Jean Baptiste Drouet was born on July 29, 1765 in Reims, Champagne.
At the age of seventeen, in October 1782, he enlisted in the Beaujolais regiment.
Discharged in 1787, he joined the Reims chasseurs battalion as a volunteer during the French Revolution in August 1792.
Drouet was appointed brigadier general in 1799, and division general in 1803.
Drouet died at his Paris home, 8 rue Thiroux, on January 25, 1844.
He is buried in Reims, in the cimetière du Nord
"Jean Baptiste Drouët, comte d’Erlon". Engraving of 19th century.
