MARECHAL MORTIER IN UNIFORM. Subject in bronze with brown patina on a base engraved "Mal Mortier". Stamped "Bronze d'art Albinet et Coulon. Éditeur Paris". Height Height : 40 cm. Edouard Mortier, Duke of Treviso (1768-1835). Marshal of the first class of 1804, he was one of the most discreet and probing of the military elite promoted by Napoleon. A courageous victor at Dürenstein (1805), decisive at Friedland, in Spain, where he fought for four years, he scored several successes before joining the Grande Armée on the eve of its entry into Russia. As head of the Young Guard, Napoleon recognized his sense of order and discipline and appointed him governor of Moscow. During the 1813 campaign, he played an important role at Lützen and Bautzen. During the French campaign, he was again at the head of the Old Guard, fighting until the very last moments of the Empire. Allied to Louis XVIII, he joined Napoleon during the Hundred Days adventure, but was not at Waterloo. His sense of honor led him to refuse to sit on Marshal Ney's trial, and led to his disbarment from the Chambre des Pairs. Reinstated, he died in 1835 during the Fieschi assassination attempt, while still Minister of War.