page_title: List of Marshals of France
section_title: Louis XVI, 1774–1792
hierarchical_section_title: List of Marshals of France / Bourbons / Louis XVI, 1774–1792
caption_attribution_description: Portrait du maréchal de Ségur (1724-1801)
context_page_description: Marshal of France is a French military distinction, rather than a military rank, that is awarded to generals for exceptional achievements. The title has been awarded since 1185, though briefly abolished and briefly dormant. It was one of the Great Officers of the Crown of France during the Ancien Régime and Bourbon Restoration, and one of the Grand Dignitaries of the Empire during the First French Empire.
  A Marshal of France displays seven stars on each shoulder strap. A marshal also receives a baton: a blue cylinder with stars, formerly fleurs-de-lis during the monarchy and eagles during the First French Empire. The baton bears the Latin inscription of Terror belli, decus pacis, which means "terror in war, ornament in peace".
  Between the end of the 16th century and the middle of the 19th century, six Marshals of France were given the even more exalted rank of Marshal General of France: Biron, Lesdiguières, Turenne, Villars, Saxe, and Soult.
context_section_description: Anne Pierre, Duke of Harcourt (1701–1783), Marshal of France in 1775
  Louis, 4th duc de Noailles (1713–1793), Marshal of France in 1775
  Antoine, Count of Nicolaï (1712–1787), Marshal of France in 1775
  Charles, Duke of Fitz-James (1712–1787), Marshal of France in 1775
  Philippe, Duke of Mouchy (1715–1794), Marshal of France in 1775
  Emmanuel de Durfort, Duke of Duras (1715–1789), Marshal of France in 1775
  Louis Nicolas, Duc du Muy (1702–1775), Marshal of France  in 1775
  Claude, Count of Saint-Germain (1707–1778), Marshal of France in 1775
  Guy de Montmorency, Duke of Laval (1723–1798), Marshal of France  in 1783
  Augustin, Count of Mailly (1708–1794), Marshal of France in 1783
  Henri Bouchard de Lussan, Marquis of Aubeterre (1714–1788), Marshal of France in 1783
  Charles de Beauvau, Prince of Beauvau-Craon (1720–1793), Marshal of France in 1783
  Noël Jourda, Count of Vaux (1705–1788), Marshal of France in 1783
  Philippe Henri, marquis de Ségur (1724–1801), Marshal of France in 1783
  Jacques de Choiseul-Stainville, Count of Choiseul (1727–1789), Marshal of France in 1783
  Charles de La Croix, Marquis of Castries (1727–1801), Marshal of France in 1783
  Emmanuel de Croÿ-Solre, Duke of Croÿ (1718–1784), Marshal of France in 1783
  François Gaston de Lévis, Duc de Lévis (1719–1787), Marshal of France in 1783
  Nicolas Luckner, Comte Luckner (1722–1794), Marshal of France since in 1791
  Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau (1725–1807), Marshal of France in 1791
caption: Maréchal de Ségur
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