Louis Marie Baptiste Atthalin
1784
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1856
French Army officer and artist (1784-1856)
Louis Marie Baptiste Atthalin, Baron Atthalin was a French Army officer, politician, painter, watercolorist, and lithographer. He died in Colmar on 3 September 1856. Louis-Philippe I sent Atthalin to Nicholas I of Russia to inform him of the former's accession. He was also present at the reburial of Napoleon's remains in 1840.