
Jean Rapp (27 April 1771-8 November 1821) was a French gentleman and general. He fought under Napoleon during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars, playing a major part in the Battle of Austerlitz in 1805. Rapp later served as Treasurer of the Kingdom of France from 1818 to 1821.
Biography[]

Rapp at the Battle of La Suffel
Originally studiyng to be a clergyman, Rapp opted for military service in 1788 and became a general of Napoleon Bonaparte, serving as aide-de-camp to Louis Charles Antoine Desaix during the 1798 Egyptian Campaign. He later became assistant to Napoleon, as Desaix was killed in the Battle of Marengo in 1800. He served at the Battle of Austerlitz in 1805 and captured Prince Repnin in what is called Napoleon's best victory.
During the Peninsular War in 1811, Rapp was promoted to become the commander of a French army that was formed in the Pyrenees-Orientales in order to restore the situation in Spain, where Spanish forces had liberated most of Iberia Proper. Rapp, promoted to General, formed a large army in southern France and prepared an offensive to recapture Catalonia from Inigo Mendoza's guerrillas. General Rapp turned the tide of the war, capturing Valencia from the Spanish and forcing them to face a threat on their flank. Eventually, the Portuguese army recaptured Valencia and liberated it, handing it over to the Spanish and eliminating Rapp's army. Returning to Europe, Rapp later fought at the Battle of Berezina in 1812, where he was wounded.
He joined Napoleon in the Hundred Days in 1815 and defeated the Austrians at the Battle of La Suffel before he surrendered after hearing of Napoleon's defeat. Rapp became Treasurer for Louis XVIII of France in 1818, and died in 1821 in Rheinweiler, Baden.