Louis Marie Turreau de Garambouville (1756–1816) was the French minister plenipotentiary to the United States, 1804–11. A native of Evreux, France, he fought in both the American and French revolutions. During the latter Turreau rose to the rank of lieutenant general and distinguished himself by brutally but successfully quelling revolts in the Vendée and Switzerland. Rumored to be a wife-beating profligate, after his return to France he separated from his wife and unsuccessfully pursued the late empress Josephine Bonaparte, whose own marriage to Napoleon had been annulled in December 1809 (Biographie universelle description begins Biographie universelle, ancienne et moderne, new ed., 1843–65, 45 vols. description ends , 42:300–3; Brant, Madison description begins Irving Brant, James Madison, 1941–61, 6 vols. description ends , 4:266–79; Dolley Madison, Selected Letters description begins David B. Mattern and Holly C. Shulman, eds., The Selected Letters of Dolley Payne Madison, 2003 description ends , 62; Turreau, Mémoires pour servir à l’Histoire de la Guerre de la Vendée [Paris, 1824]).