Guillaume Emmanuel Guignard, vicomte de Saint-Priest

Guillaume Emmanuel Guignard de Saint-Priest
Guillaume Emmanuel Guignard by George Dawe
Other nameEmmanuil Francevich Saint-Priest
Born4 March 1776
Died29 March 1814 (aged 38)
Allegiance Russian Empire
RankMajor-general
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Guillaume Emmanuel Guignard, vicomte de Saint-Priest (4 March 1776, in Constantinople – 29 March 1814) was a French émigré general who fought in the Imperial Russian Army during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.

He was the eldest son of prominent émigré diplomat François-Emmanuel Guignard, comte de Saint-Priest (1735–1821), one of King Louis XVI's last ministers, and Constance Wilhelmine de Saint-Priest.

Guillaume Emmanuel became a major-general in the Russian army under Emperor Alexander I of Russia, and fought against the forces of Napoleon. Some weeks before the Battle of Leipzig, he and his cavalry defeated the troops of French brigade general François Basile Azemar in the Battle of Großdrebnitz. Saint-Priest was defeated and mortally wounded during the 1814 Allied invasion of France in the Battle of Reims and died two weeks later at Laon.