page_title: Louis Friant
section_title: Waterloo and final years
hierarchical_section_title: Louis Friant / Napoleonic Wars / Waterloo and final years
caption_attribution_description: English: Details of the Arc de Triomphe. Northern pillar, Columns 7,8,9
context_page_description: Louis Friant was born in the village of Morlancourt, 8 km south of Albert near the river Somme.
context_section_description: During Napoleon's exile, Friant was retained as commander of the grenadiers à pied de France. In the campaign of the Hundred Days, he was Colonel-in-Chief of the Grenadiers à Pied de la Vieille Garde. His men made the final assault on Ligny as darkness fell on 16 June 1815. On 18 June, at Waterloo Friant led his Old Guard Grenadiers in the final, fateful attack on the Allied center, where he was wounded yet again.
  Friant retired in September 1815. He died on 24 June 1829, aged 70.
caption: His name is on the arc de triomphe in Paris
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