XJF375717 Sylvain Charles Valee (1773-1846), Count and Marshal (engraving) by Court, Joseph Desire (1797-1865) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Valee was a distinguished French soldier and artillery commander in the French Revolutionary, Napeoleonic and Algerian Wars; made Comte by Napoleon in 1814 after successful campaigns in Spain; retained by Louis XVIII after the Boourbon restoration and reorganised the French artillery (known as the Valee system); in 1837 sent to Algeria where after his capture of Constantine he was given the baton of a Marechal de France and appointed Governor General 1837-40;); French, out of copyright.