serviceyears laterwork conflit branch commands relations death_date death_place birth_place allegiance awards battles birth_date rank image article_title name
1726 -- 1792 lieutenant and grand bailli of ponthieu général of roussillon gouvernor of abbeville , sénéchal guerre de succession de pologne maison militaire du roi de france inspector and armies general of cavalry and dragoons director-general of camps house of mailly 25 march 1794 -lrb- aged 85 -rrb- arras villaines-sous-lucé kingdom of france cross malta knight of the orders of the king -lrb- 1776 of -rrb- order of saint-lazare saint-louis collar of the grand cross of siege battle of pavia battle of rossbach defence of the palais of des tuileries kehl -lrb- 1733 -rrb- battle of wissembourg 5 april 1708 marshal of france maréchal de mailly 2.jpg augustin-joseph de mailly
 augustin joseph de mailly
augustin-joseph de mailly

augustin-joseph de mailly -lrb- 5 april 1708 , villaines-sous-lucé -- 25 march 1794 , arras -rrb- was a french general , governor and nobleman .
augustin-joseph de mailly was marquis d'haucourt and baron of saint-amand .
in january 1744 he inherited the title of count of mailly following the death of his cousin louis de mailly -lrb- 1723 -- 1743 -rrb- .
at first a musketeer -lrb- 1726 -rrb- , he served in the gendarmerie -lrb- 1733 -- 1764 -rrb- before rising rapidly through the ranks -- brigadier on 20 february 1743 , maréchal de camp on 1 may 1745 , lieutenant-général on 10 may 1748 , inspector general of cavalry and dragoons on 21 may 1749 , and finally director-general of camps and armies .
in disgrace , he was distanced from the court and therefore remained a lieutenant-général for a very long time , before becoming commander in chief in roussillon , where he was the originator of great building works and the renewal of the university and played a large rôle in catalan freemasonry .
made a chevalier du saint-esprit on 26 may 1776 , he was made marshal of france on 13 june 1783 and due to his age was able to be governor of abbeville , sénéchal and grand bailli of ponthieu not far from his lands and château .
however , this mailly , who fought in many battles of the wars of louis xv , received from louis xvi , in 1790 , command of one of the four armies decreed by the national assembly -lrb- 14th and 15th military divisions -rrb- .
this was a difficult task and he resigned on 22 june , when he learned of the king 's flight to varennes .
on 10 august 1792 , despite his old age , he fought on the side of the threatened french monarchy .
escaping the carnage that followed the capture of the palais des tuileries and the september massacres , he was arrested in his château , then guillotined in 1794 at arras , aged 87 -- on the scaffold he cried `` i remain faithful to my king , as my ancestors have always been '' .
