Oreste Bertrand de L'Hodiesnière

1805–1824 (age 19)

Biography

Oreste Bertrand de L'Hodiesnière lived a brief but notable life during the Napoleonic era. Born in 1805, he came of age during one of France's most dynamic periods, a time of military ambition and social transformation under Napoleon's rule.

Though his life was cut short at just nineteen years of age in 1824, L'Hodiesnière's burial in Père Lachaise Cemetery indicates his family's prominence and standing in Parisian society. His story represents the many young lives shaped by the turbulent early decades of the 19th century.

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