Cromot du Bourg, Marie François Joseph Maxime, Baron de
Cromot du Bourg, Marie François Joseph Maxime, Baron de
CROMOT DU BOURG, MARIE FRANÇOIS JOSEPH MAXIME, BARON DE. (1756–1836). French officer. Born at Versailles, he volunteered in 1768 for the Regiment of Dragoons of La Rochefoucauld. He received the rank of Second Lieutenant in the dragoons of the comte de Provence (later Louis XVIII) in 1770. He received command of a company in 1774. He was Rochambeau's aide from 26 March to 18 November 1781 and left a valuable journal of the campaign.
In 1783 Bourg was promoted to major on the general staff of the army and later to lieutenant colonel (1787) and colonel (1788). He resigned his command on 18 October 1790 and joined the emigré army, serving as aide-de-camp to the comte de Provence from 1792 to 1796. In 1815 the former comte, now King Louis XVIII, gave him the honorary rank of maréchal de camp with a pension.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bodinier, André. Dictionnaire des officiers de l'armée royale qui ont combattu aux Etats-Unis pendant la guerre d'Indépendance, 1776–1783. Vincennes, France: Service historique de l'armée, 1982.
Cromot du Bourg, Marie François. "Diary of a French Officer, 1781 (Presumed to be that of Baron Cromot du Bourg, aid [sic] to Rochambeau)." Magazine of American History 4 (1880): 205-214, 293-308, 376-385, 441-452, and 7 (1881): 283-295.
revised by Robert Rhodes Crout