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Francois-Joseph-Marie Clary

French soldier and officer (1786–1841)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ3084983 ↗
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Francois-Joseph-Marie dit Marius Clary (October 3, 1786 in Marseille - January 27, 1841 in Paris) was a French officer who was promoted to the rank of General de Brigade during the Hundred Days in 1815. He was the nephew of Julie Clary and Désirée Clary.

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“Francois-Joseph-Marie Clary” enters the record as french soldier and officer (1786–1841). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Francois-Joseph-Marie, Clary and French can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Francois-Joseph-Marie Clary” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.