Editing Adolphe Marbot (section)

=== Early life ===
Antoine Adolphe Marcelin Marbot was born into a family of military nobility in [[Altillac]], in the ancient province of [[Quercy]] in southwestern France. He was the elder son of General [[Jean-Antoine Marbot]], former ''[[aide-de-camp]]'' to ''Lieutenant-Général'' de Schomberg, inspector general of the cavalry within the [[Maison Militaire du Roi de France|Military household of the king of France]].<ref name="Marbot 1892, Volume 1, Chapter 1">{{Cite book |author=Marbot, Marcellin |translator=Butler, Arthur J. |date=1892 |chapter=Chapter I: Early Days |chapter-url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044087883203&view=1up&seq=15 |title=The memoirs of Baron de Marbot, late lieutenant-general in the French army |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000626152 |language=en |location=London |publisher=Longmans, Green & Co. |volume=1 |pages=1–8}}</ref>

After studying at the military college of Sorèze, he entered the army at the age of seventeen as a chasseur in the [[:fr:21e régiment de chasseurs à cheval|21st cavalry regiment of chasseurs]]. He was promoted to the rank of [[second lieutenant]] on 5 October 1799, and became ''aide-de-camp'' to General [[Charles XIV John|Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte]], commander-in-chief of the [[Army of the West (France)|Army of the West]] (and future King [[House of Bernadotte|Charles XIV John]] of [[Sweden]]), with the rank of [[lieutenant]].<ref name="Chisholm 1911">{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle=Marbot, Antoine Adolphe Marcelin |volume=17 |page=680}}</ref>

[[File:General Jean-Antoine Marbot (1754-1800).jpg|thumb|left|General [[Jean-Antoine Marbot]] (1754–1800) during the [[Siege of Genoa (1800)|Italian campaign]]]]