"Duty and discipline"

1753 November 20 - Born at Versailles
1766 January 1 - Topographical engineer
1770 March 11 - Lieutenant of infantry
1776 August 18 - Lieutenant of dragoons
1777 June 2 - Captain of dragoons
1780 April 26 - Captain, Soissonnais infantry regiment
1787 December 2 - Assistant, General Staff Corps (aide marechal-general des logis)
1788 July 1 - Major
1789 July 11 - Lieutenant colonel
1791 April 1 - Colonel adjutant general
1792 May 22 - Marechal de camp (brigadier general)
1792 September 20 - Suspended
1795 March 2 - Reinstituted as general de Brigade, chief of staff, l'Armee d'Italie
1795 June 13 - General de division
1797 December 9 - Commander in chief, l'Armee d'Italie
1798 March 8 - Chief of staff, l'Armee de l'Orient
1799 November 10 - Minister of war
1800 April 2 - Commander in chief, l'Armee de Reserve
1800 August 11 - Ambassador extraordinary to Spain
1800 October 8 - Minister of war (until September 1, 1807)
1804 May 19 - Appointed Marechal d'Empire (first in seniority)
1804 July 11 - Senator, Grand Officer of the Palace, Grand Master of the Hunt
1805 August 29 - Major-general, chief-of-staff of La Grande Armee (until 1814)
1805 August 30 - Sovereign Prince of Neuchatel and Valangin
1807 August 9 - Vice-constable of the Empire
1809 August 15 - Prince of Wagram
1810 February 27 - Ambassador-ekstraordinary to Vienna
1810 June 13 - Colonel general of the Swiss
1814 June 1 - Captain, 5th Company of the king's Gardes du Corps
1814 June 4 - Peer of France
1815 June 1 - Died at Bamberg, Bavaria

Berthier "I have been betrayed by Berthier, a true gosling whom I had made into a kind of eagle" (1814)".
"There was not in the world a better Chief-of-Staff; that is where his true talent lay, for he was not capable of commanding 500 men" (St.Helena)".

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by Gipsy