Claude Juste Alexandre Legrand

Claude Juste Alexandre Louis Legrand
Portrait by Antoine-Jean Gros, 1812
Born23 February 1762
Le Plessier-sur-Saint-Just, France
Died8 January 1815
Paris, France
Buried
Panthéon, Paris
Allegiance First French Empire
Service/branchFrench Army
Years of service1777–1815
Rankgénéral de division
Battles/warsFrench Revolutionary Wars
Napoleonic Wars
AwardsGrand Eagle / Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur,
name inscribed on the Arc de Triomphe (east side)

Claude Juste Alexandre Louis Legrand (French pronunciation: [klod ʒyst alɛksɑ̃dʁ lwi ləɡʁɑ̃]; 23 February 1762, Le Plessier-sur-Saint-Just, Oise – 8 January 1815, Paris) was a French general. He commanded French divisions at several notable battles of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Napoléon made him a Count of the Empire in 1808. He rose to senator on 5 April 1813, then Pair de France on 4 June 1814 and chevalier de Saint-Louis on 27 June 1814. He organised the defence of Chalon-sur-Saône in 1814 and died in Paris in 1815 of wounds received beside the River Berezina.