page_title: Philippe Higonet
section_title: Under the Restoration
hierarchical_section_title: Philippe Higonet / Life / Under the Restoration
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Entrevue du général Maison et d'Ibrahim Pacha, à Navarin, septembre 1828 (détail). Intervention française en Morée (1828-1833). Dimensions&#160;: 197 x 267 cm. Cadre&#160;: 203 x 272,5 x 7,5 cm. Matière et technique&#160;: huile sur toile.
context_page_description: Philippe Higonet was a French General and politician. He was born on 5 May 1782 in Saint-Geniez-d'Olt and died on 7 April 1862 in Aurillac.
context_section_description: After Napoleon's second abdication, Philippe Higonet rallied to Louis XVIII, who appointed him to form and command the Legion of Cantal on 19 August 1815. On 8 June 1816, he married Augustine, daughter of Baron Jean-François de Jujeals de Peyrac de Veillan. King Louis XVIII made him Baron shortly after. He then chose the motto of his coat of arms as "Virtus, labor, pietas". He was also made Officer of the Order of the Legion of Honour that same year of 1816.
  The command of the 9th Line Infantry Regiment was then entrusted to Colonel Philippe Higonet, with whom he participated in 1823 in the expedition of Spain. On 11 August 1823, he was promoted to Maréchal de camp (Brigadier General) in recognition of his acts of bravery during the siege of Pamplona. During the siege of San Sebastián on 3 September 1823, he obtained the capitulation of the city on the 28. The campaign finished, he then returned to France in March 1823. The following year, on 8 June 1824, he was promoted Commander of the Order of the Legion of Honour and raised to the dignity of Grand Officer of the Order of Saint Ferdinand of Spain.
  By the ordinance of 24 July 1828, he was then sent to Greece as a field marshal to participate in the Morea expedition (1828), under the orders of Marshal Maison, during the Greek War of Independence. At the head of the 2nd brigade of the expeditionary forces, he liberated the city of Navarino (on 7 October 1828) from the Turkish-Egyptian occupation troops of Ibrahim Pasha and then took the "Castle of Morea" of Patras (on 30 October 1828). Higonet stayed for a few months in Patras and he established there several health commissions for the freed but suffering Greek population, and even managed, in December 1828, to contain an outbreak of plague which was developing in the mountainous villages of Kalavryta and Vrachni. He finally left the Greek soil after four months of mission in the Peloponnese, on 9 January 1829, after having completely liberated Greece from the occupier. During this campaign, on 22 February 1829, he was promoted by king Charles X Commander of the Royal and Military Order of Saint-Louis and then, on his return to France, Commander of the Order of the Redeemer by the new independent Greek State, in 1830.
caption: The French military expedition of Morea in 1828 (by Jean-Charles Langlois)
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