Pierre Surirey de Saint-Remy

Pierre Surirey de Saint-Remy (1645–1716) was a French general.

Pierre Surirey de Saint-Remy
By Hyacinthe Riggaud
Born1645
Died1716
Paris
NationalityFrench
OccupationGeneral and writer

He followed a military career and from 1670 in the Royal Corps of Artillery. Provincial Commissioner of Artillery in 1692, he is the author of Mémoires d'artillerie, published for the first time in 1697.

He was named a lieutenant of the Grand maître de l'artillerie de France in 1703 and was a maréchal de camp.

He married Marie-Madeleine Hénault, the aunt of Charles-Jean-François Hénault, in 1672.

Publications

  • Mémoires d'artillerie... (1697)

Sources

  • Michaud, Biographie universelle, ancienne et moderne, 1825
  • François-Xavier de Feller, Dictionnaire historique, ou histoire abrégée des hommes qui se sont fait un nom par le génie, les talents, les vertus, les erreurs, 1824


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