* 1769 – Michel Ney, French marshal ( d. 1815 )

* 1811 – During André Masséna's retreat from the Lines of Torres Vedras, a division led by French Marshal Michel Ney fights off a combined Anglo-Portuguese force to give Masséna time to escape.

* 1811 – Peninsular War: A day after a successful rear guard action, French Marshal Michel Ney once again successfully delayed the pursuing Anglo-Portuguese force at the Battle of Redinha.

Michel Ney, now under the allegiance of the restored Bourbon king ( Welles ) is asked to capture him at Grenoble.

* Dan O ' Herlihy as Marshal Michel Ney

* December 7 – Michel Ney, French marshal ( executed ) ( b. 1769 )

* January 10 – Michel Ney, French marshal ( d. 1815 )

On the same day, the left wing of the Armée du Nord, under the command of Marshal Michel Ney, succeeded in stopping any of Wellington's forces going to aid Blücher's Prussians by fighting a blocking action at Quatre Bras.

Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty | Nansouty's heavy cavalry attacks squares of Russian guardsmen to the left of Semyanovskaya ( background ) to support Michel Ney | Ney's attack.

Prince Bagration quickly led a counterattack that threw the French out of the positions, only to have Marshal Michel Ney lead a charge by the 24th Regiment that retook them.

Incorporating a Prussian corps on his right flank, he first bumped into elements of the VI Corps of Marshal Michel Ney, who had disobeyed his emperor's orders and advanced far north of his assigned winter cantonments.

In the Battle of Bautzen ( 20 – 21 May 1813 ) a combined Russian / Prussian army was pushed back by Napoleon, but escaped destruction, some sources claim, because Michel Ney failed to block their retreat.

From north to south, these were commanded by General of Division Claude Legrand ( 7, 900 ), General of Brigade Louis Bastoul ( 6, 300 ), General of Division Michel Ney ( 9, 600 ) and General of Division Emmanuel Grouchy ( 8, 600 ).

After an artillery barrage, the grenadiers of General Paul Grenier assaulted the redoubts of Hettersdorff and took the village in a bayonet charge, while the hussars of Michel Ney outflanked the Austrian center position from the left.

* Guard infantry, under Marshal, Prince of the Moskowa Michel Ney ( Reinforcements not engaged ):

* Michel Ney, Duke of Elchingen, Prince of Moscow ( 1769-1815 ), Marshal of France in 1804.

For example, he was a member of the court-martial that refused to try Marshal Michel Ney.

He starred in Fail-Safe in 1964 ( as General Black, or " Blackie "), The Big Cube and 100 Rifles, in 1969, and in the 1970 epic Waterloo, playing the part of Marshal of France Michel Ney.

On his book The Open Veins of Latin America, Uruguayan writer, Eduardo Galeano mentions, that this statue is that of French marshal Michel Ney.

Michel Ney as a sous-lieutenant in the Hussards de Saxe in 1792, Adolphe Brune ( Paris, 1802 ; Paris, 1875 ), 1834.

Michel Ney was born in Saarlouis, the second son of Pierre Ney ( 1738 – 1826 ), a master barrel-cooper and veteran of the Seven Years ' War, and of his wife Margarethe Grewelinger ( 1739 – 1791 ).

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Michel Colucci ( born October 28, 1944 in Paris, France ; died June 19, 1986 in Opio, Alpes-Maritimes, France ), better known as Coluche (), was a French comedian and actor, famous for his irreverent sense of humour.

Michael Servetus (), also known as Miguel Servet, Miguel Serveto alias Revés, or Michel de Villeneuve ; ( 29 September?

Atomised, also known as The Elementary Particles (), is a novel by the French author Michel Houellebecq, published in France in 1998.

St. Michaelis, colloquially called Michel (), is one of Hamburg's five main Protestant churches ( Hauptkirchen ) and the most famous church in the city.

* Andoche Alfred Michel Junot, 3rd Duc d ' Abrantes ( Ciudad Rodrigo, 25 November 1810 – killed in action at Brescia, 19 July 1859 ), married firstly on 2 April 1845 Marie Céline Elise Lepic ( 9 October 1824 – 6 June 1847 ), and married secondly on 10 January 1853 Marie Louise Léonie Lepic ( 19 July 1829 – 17 August 1868 ), both sisters, daughters of Joachim Lepic, 1st Baron Lepic, and wife Anne-Marguerite Pasquier, and had:

Géraud Christophe Michel Duroc, 1st Duc de Frioul ( October 25, 1772 – May 23, 1813 ) was a French general noted for his association with Napoleon.

Michel Louis Étienne Regnaud, later 1st Count Regnaud de Saint-Jean d ' Angély ( 3 December 1761, Saint-Fargeau – 11 March 1819, Paris ) was a French politician.

Meanwhile, Marshal Michel Ney's 6th Corps, Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte's 1st Corps, and Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bessières's 2nd Cavalry Reserve Corps turned the Russian right.

Suchet's 1st Division included General of Brigade Michel Marie Claparède's 3-battalion 17th Light Infantry Regiment, General of Brigade Honoré Charles Reille's 4-battalion 34th Line Infantry Regiment and 3-battalion 40th Line Infantry Regiment, and General of Brigade Dominique Honoré Antoine Vedel's 64th and 88th Line Infantry Regiments, three battalions each.

** 13th Division ( French ): Michel Marie Pacthod: 1st Bde.

Besides the teenage son of the Duc d ' Orléans, Louis Philippe, a future king of France, liberal aristocrats of the type of the duc d ' Aiguillon, the prince de Broglie, or the vicomte de Noailles, and the bourgeoisie who formed the mass of the members, the club contained such figures as " Père " Michel Gerard, a peasant proprietor from Tuel-en-Montgermont, in Brittany, whose rough common sense was admired as the oracle of popular wisdom, and whose countryman's waistcoat and plaited hair were later on to become the model for the Jacobin fashion.

* Michel Louis Félix, recognized as 2nd Duc d ' Elchingen 1826 ( Paris, 24 August 1804 – Gallipoli, during the Crimean War, 14 July 1854 ).

* 1952 – Michel Larocque, Canadian hockey player ( d. 1992 )

* 1603 – Michel le Tellier, French statesman ( d. 1685 )

* 1652 – Michel Rolle, French mathematician ( d. 1719 )

He was the older brother of Arnaud Michel d ' Abbadie.

* 1727 – Michel Adanson, French botanist ( d. 1806 )

* 1657 – Michel Richard Delalande, French Baroque composer and organist ( d. 1726 )

* 1916 – Michel Chartrand, Quebec union leader ( d. 2010 )

* 1971 – Michel Breistroff, French hockey player ( d. 1996 )

* 1533 – Michel de Montaigne, French writer ( d. 1592 )

* Faul, Michel ( 2009 ), Les aventures militaires, littéraires et autres d ' Étienne de Jouy, Editions Seguier, France, March 2009, ISBN 978-2-84049-556-7

After the 1991 Haitian coup d ' état which toppled Aristide for the first time, members of the coup regime, notably Chief of National Police Michel François, were accused of drug smuggling.

* 1912 – Michel Debré, French politician ( d. 1996 )

* 1948 – Michel Plasse, French-Canadian ice hockey player ( d. 2006 )

* 1928 – Michel Serrault, French actor ( d. 2007 )

* 1931 – Michel Regnier, Belgian comic-book writer ( d. 1999 )

* 1902 – André Michel Lwoff, French microbiologist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1994 )

* 1939 – Michel Colombier, French composer, songwriter, and conductor ( d. 2004 )

* 1878 – Michel Théato, Luxembourgian athlete ( d. 1919 )

* 1947 – Michel Berger, French songwriter ( d. 1992 )

* 1923 – Michel Joseph Kuehn, French bishop ( d. 2012 )

* 1715 – Michel Benoist, French Jesuit missionary ( d. 1774 )

* 1921 – Michel Boisrond, French film director ( d. 2002 )

* 1926 – Michel Foucault, French philosopher ( d. 1984 )

* Michel Philippon, " Un Souvenir d ' enfance de Paul Valéry ", Éditions InterUniversitaires, 1996