cut with his sabre on the forehead, and brought him back. Later career and death For his part in the Hundred Days he was condemned to death by the royalists, but he escaped to the United States and spent the next few years farming in the ill-fated Vine and Olive Colony, beginning in 1817. His frequent appeals to Louis XVIII eventually obtained his permission to return. However, the vessel on which he was returning to France, the American packet Albion of the Black Ball line, went down off the coast of Ireland on 22 April 1822. Mr Everart, the only passenger surviving reported that the general had been injured in the wreck and presumed drowned, the bodies washing up over a number of weeks were not identifiable. His body is one of those buried in Templetrine Graveyard in County Cork, near Kinsale. Tributes He is recognized as LEFÈBVRE-DESNte on the 31st column of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. His widow had an obelisk, known as the "Pain de Sucre" (Sugarloaf) due to its shape and frequent re-painting in white, erected to his memory and that of the sailors who perished with him. It stands above the sea on the crest of a low hill in Sainte-Adresse, now a suburb of Le Havre, and doubled as a navigation mark helping other sailors avoid the hazards in the approach to the port. See also List of people who disappeared mysteriously at sea References External links Smith, Digby. The Napoleonic Wars Data Book. London: Greenhill, 1998. Charles Lefebvre Desnouettes Letters, 1818-1819., Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina 1773 births 1820s missing person cases 1822 deaths Commanders in the French Imperial Guard French commanders of the Napoleonic Wars French emigrants to the United States French generals French prisoners of war Members of the Chamber of Peers of the Hundred Days Military personnel from Paris Missing person cases in Ireland Names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe People lost at sea