Charles Eugene , Prince of Lambesc Charles Eugène of Lorraine ( 25 September 1751 – 2 November 1825 ) was a member of the House of Guise , a cadet branch of the House of Lorraine , he was an officer in the French and Habsburg military during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars . Biography . Born on 25 September 1751 in Versailles , France , Charles Eugène was a peer of France and Prince of Lorraine . Styled as the " Prince of Lambesc " . One of four children , he had a younger brother and two younger sisters . through his sister , Joséphine of Lorraine , he was an uncle of Charles Emmanuel , Prince of Carignan and great uncle of the future King Charles Albert of Sardinia . He married twice ; firstly to Anna Cetner ( Zetzner ) ( 1764 – 1814 ) , whom he wed 20 May 1803 . The couple had no issue . He married again to Viktoria Folliot de Crenneville ( 1766 – 1845 ) again the couple had no children . He defended the royal palace in the riot at the Tuileries Gardens in July 1789 . Initially he served in the French army , but at the outset of France ' s wars with Austria , he picked up the Bourbon cause in Germany . His regiment was taken into service in the Habsburg army in 1793 , and he served with distinction in several of the wars of the First and Second Coalitions . Upon the Bourbon restoration in 1815 , his dynastic dignities were restored to him , but due to widespread unpopularity in France , he never returned to exercise his privileges . He died in Vienna in 1825 . Military career . French military service . The eldest of House of Lothringen - Lambesc served as the King of France ' s grand equerry . Charles Eugène became Colonel and Proprietor ( Chief ) of the Royal Allemand - Dragoons in 1778 and was promoted to Marshal of the Camp in the French Army on 9 March 1788 . He received the Commanders Cross of the Order of Saint Louis , In the early days of the French Revolution , Charles Eugène ' s Allemand Dragoons were an important element in the protection of the Louis ' Court . On 12 July 1789 , Charles Eugène rode at the head of his dragoons across the Place of Louis XV into the Tuileries Gardens , against a mob that had gathered there and forced the group out of the garden . In the course of the attack , many were injured , and Charles Eugène was held popularly responsible , although no charges were filed . When hostilities between France and the Habsburgs reached a crisis point in 1791 , he left his Allemand Dragoons and followed the Bourbon cause with his younger brother , Joseph , Prince of Vaudémont . Habsburg military service . On 18 June 1791 , the prince was appointed major general in the Austrian army . In October 1791 , he was given command of a brigade composed of the Freikorps ( volunteers ) " Degelmann " and 37th Dragoon Regiment in Flanders . On 1 February 1793 , his regiment , the 37th Dragoons , was taken into Habsburg service and in 1798 , it was united with the 10th Cuirassier Regiment . At the Battle of Tournai on 22 May 1794 , he charged the French infantry on the heights of Templeuve with four squadrons ( approximately 1 , 000 men ) of the 18th Chevauxleger Regiment " Karaiczay " , cutting down 500 men and taking three guns . On 22 June 1794 , he was appointed Colonel and Proprietor of the 21st of Cuirassier Regiment in recognition of his actions . In the Battle of Fleurus , on 26 June 1794 , he charged with four squadrons of 5th Carabiners " Albert " to rescue part of Campaign Marshal Count von Kaunitz ' s infantry , which had been surrounded by three French cavalry regiments . This unlikely charge against another cavalry force more than five times its size took the French by surprise ; the French cavalry scattered , giving Kaunitz to organize an orderly withdrawal of his own force from the field . On 4 March 1796 , Charles Eugène was promoted to Lieutenant Field Marshal . In 1796 he served in Germany under Field Marshal Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser in the Army of the Upper Rhine ; on 11 May of that year , he was awarded the Commander ' s Cross of the Military Order of Maria Theresa Order . He fought with distinction at the Battle of Amberg on 24 August and in the Battle of Würzburg on 2 September , commanding a brigade of cavalry . In the War of the Second Coalition , the Prince fought in Swabia at the Battle of Engen . After this campaign , the prince was posted to the Habsburg province Galicia , where he was governor general . On 3 December 1806 , he was promoted to General of Cavalry and a few weeks later , captain of the First " Arcièren " Life Guard in Vienna ; he was also awarded the Order of the Golden Fleece in 1808 . After the restoration of Louis XVIII , he was created again Peer of France , and his dignities further enhanced by the title " Duke of Elbeuf " . Louis XVIII furthermore appointed him as a Marshal of France . Because of the popular hostility against him in France , relating to the incident in the Tuilleries in July 1789 , he never exercised these privileges and he died at the age of 74 in Vienna on 21 November 1825 . He had briefly been married to the widow of Count von Colloreedo , but they were divorced after a few months . He had no children , and with his death , and his brother ' s , the male line of old Lothringen lines of Erbouf , Harecourt , and Armagnac ended .