Jean Baptiste Berthier

Jean Baptiste Berthier studied at École de Mars. The recorded working language is French. Residence is recorded at Hôtel de la Marine. Works named in the authority record are Hôtel de la Guerre, Hôtel des Affaires étrangères et de la Marine and Carte des chasses du roi. Distinctions recorded are Order of Saint Louis.

• Name — Jean-Baptiste Berthier • Born — 6 January 1721 • Birthplace — Tonnerre, France • Died — 21 May 1804 • Place of death — Paris, First French Empire • Occupation — Military officer, architect, cartographer • Spouse — * Marie Françoise L'Huillier de La Serre • Françoise Chéron • Children — Louis Alexandre Berthier Charles Berthier César Berthier Victor-Léopold Berthier Madame d'Ogeranville Alexandre Joseph Berthier

Jean-Baptiste Berthier was born on 6 January 1721 in Tonnerre, France.

After attracting the attention of marchal de camp Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle, he was deputed by him to supervise construction of several prominent Paris public buildings, notably those of the ministries of war, navy and foreign affairs in Versailles. In 1758, he was made Director of Military Survey to King Louis XV, a position he retained with Louis XVI for whom he prepared the famous topographic maps of the Royal hunting grounds. • Illustration — Marie Françoise L'Huillier de La Serre

He married his first wife, Marie Françoise L'Huillier de La Serre, in 1746. Together, they had seven children, with all his sons following him into the military and three of them becoming generals in Napoleon's army. • Berlouis Berthier (1751–1778), died in America early in the American Revolutionary War, possibly as a result of a duel • Louis Alexandre Berthier (1753–1815), Marshal of the Empire • Antoinette Berthier (born 1757), married Major Pascal-Pierre Pérache de Franqueville • Thérèse Berthier (1760–1827), married General François d'Avrange d'Haugéranville, remembered as Madame d'Ogeranville. • César Berthier (1765–1819), General • Louis-Stanislas-Marie (born 1767), died in infancy • Victor-Léopold Berthier (1770–1807), General Widowed, he remarried Françoise Chéron. They had a son Alexandre Joseph Berthier (1792–1849), who married his neice Thérèse Léopoldine Berthier (1806–1882), and had issue, Viscounts Berthier de Wagram, extinct in 1949.

He died on May 21, 1804, in Paris, France from a stroke.

The authorities additionally record the headings J-B Berthier and Jean-Baptiste Berthier. His recorded language was French. He married Marie Françoise L'Huillier de La Serre. 4 children are recorded: Luis Alejandro Berthier, Louis César Berthier, Léopold Berthier and Alexandre-Joseph Berthier.