BON-ADRIEN JEANNOT, Duc de Conégliano, was the son of an advocate, and was born in 1754 at Moncey, the village near Besançon of which he afterwards assumed the name. In 1774 his relations, yielding to his master-passion for a soldier's life, allowed him to enrol in the gendarmerie of Lunéville. After passing into the volunteers of Nassau-Siegen, and then into the "Classeurs Cantabres," he became captain in 1791; and in 1794 we find him, as general-in-chief, defeating the Spaniards at Villa Nova. Chancing to be in Paris at the revolution of the 18th brumaire, he zealously supported Napoleon, and thus opened a path to future preferment. He was appointed by the First Consul inspector-general of the gendarmerie, and in 1804 was rewarded with a marshal's baton, the title of Duc de Conégliano, and the rank of grand officer of the Legion of Honour. In 1808 he commanded in the Spanish province of Catalonia, but was recalled by Bonaparte to the command of the gendarmerie. In 1813 he received the additional appointment of commander-in-chief of the Parisian National Guard, and was entrusted with the protection of the city during the Russian campaign of Napoleon. No one was more active during the defence of the capital in 1814 than Marshal Moncey. He organized the National Guard of Paris, and was among the last to lay down his arms after the capitulation of the city. At the beginning of the Hundred Days his submission was tendered to the Bourbons, but was withdrawn as soon as Napoleon landed from Elba. He was nominated president of the commission for the trial of Marshal Ney in 1815; yet, rather than accept this nomination, he chose to be deprived of all his titles and to lie for three months in the prison of Ham. In 1816 he was restored to his dignities, and was received into the favour of the king. On the outbreak of the Spanish war in 1823 Moncey was far advanced in age; he accepted, however, the command of a division, and served in Catalonia with all the fire and Moncelier vigour of his prime. He died in April 1842.