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apologised to the
Emperor for not being able to serve him further, asked him to be a father to his daughter, and then requested him to withdraw so that he was not present at the moment of death. Alternatively, Napoleon claimed in later life that "when his bowels were falling out before my eyes, he repeatedly cried to me to have him put out of his misery. I told him: 'I feel pity for you, my friend, but there is no remedy but to suffer till the end.'" Napoleon bought the farm and erected a monument to his memory.
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on 22 May 1813, a cannonball ricocheted off a tree-trunk, hit Duroc in the stomach, tore open his belly and spilled out his intestines in a gory mess over uniform, saddle and horse, which
Napoleon witnessed. Whilst Duroc lay dying inside a farmhouse, he requested Napoleon's presence where he
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As a member of the nobility, Duroc opposed the new revolutionary government of France. In July 1792, he left the artillery school to become an
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for his widow in 1813, a rare - but nominal - hereditary honour (extinguished in 1829), created in
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following the battle, and in March 1793 he was allowed to return to Châlons and finish his education.
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Duroc deserted the royalist army. Along with two other deserters, he was arrested by the French in
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of the 4th Foot
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as a second lieutenant, in March 1792. Around this time, he removed the
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