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# Lifespans and wounds of Napoleon's marshals compared with those of other Frenchmen
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/natknulsia-na-interesnuiu-statistiku-o-napoleonovskikh-marshalakh/
- Published: 2021-06-23T13:24:10.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T19:09:17.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Observations, Science

Came across some interesting statistics on Napoleon's marshals. The average age at which they died, for instance, was a little over 65\. The youngest to go was Marshal Lannes, who caught a bullet in the neck in Egypt, was wounded in Italy, fell from his horse in Spain, and was 40 at the time of his death. Marshal Moncey, who outlived all the other Napoleonic commanders, died at the age of 87, 21 years after the death of Napoleon; it turns out that he spent all that time in comfortable posts, watching everything Bonaparte had striven for come crashing down. Auguste Marmont was the last of Napoleon's marshals to die, in 1852, but he was only 77.

It would also be interesting to look at the number of wounds sustained by Napoleon's commanders. Nicolas Oudinot alone had at least 37, and yet he lived to be over 80\. A military career without a single wound was probably the lot of no more than 3 marshals, among them André Masséna, unless, of course, one counts the loss of an eye, but that was a hunting accident and the shot was fired by Napoleon himself.

As for average life expectancy, for 1816 in France it is 33 years, but that figure includes very high infant mortality. The life expectancy of adult men after the age of 20 in France in the 1820s is another 39 years, which means that men who survived to 20 in France died on average at 59, as against 65 if those men happened to be French marshals.