Henri Jacques Guillanme Clarke, count d'Hunebourg, duke de Feltre, and marshal of France, born at Landrecies, Oct. 17, 1705, died at Neuviller, Oct. 28, 1818. He had attained the rank of brigadier general in the army when Carnot appointed him in 1795 chief of the topographical bureau in the ministry of war, where he participated in arranging the plans which contributed to the triumphs of the French armies, and was promoted to the rank of general of division. Sent by the directory to watch the movements of Bonaparte, he was fascinated by the young hero, to whom he henceforth devoted his services. He was recalled and deprived of his rank and office by the directory; but after the 18th Brumaire he was restored to his former station, and soon intrusted with several important missions. In 1804 he was appointed councillor of state and private secretary of Napoleon on military affairs, and in August, 1807, minister of war, which post he kept until April 3, 1814. His promptness in forming an army of 60,000 soldiers and sending it against the English, who had landed in the island of Walcheren in 1809, procured for him his titles of count and duke.

Napoleon had always shown a great partiality for him; but after his overthrow Clarke was among the first to join the Bourbons. He was created peer of France in June, 1814, and appointed minister of war March 11, 1815, when Napoleon was marching toward Paris. Clarke, more faithful to his new than to his old master, accompanied Louis XVIII. to Ghent, and was sent on a mission to the prince of Wales. On the second restoration he was reappointed to the ministry of war, Sept. 28, 1815, received the marshal's baton July 3, 1817, and two months later resigned his post in the cabinet and retired to private life.