Augustin Daniel Belliard, count, a French soldier, born at Fontenay-le-Comte, Poitou. March 25,1769, died in Brussels, Jan. 28, 1832. He entered the army with a captain's commission, and being cashiered for having served with Dumouriez, under whom he had distinguished himself in Belgium, especially at Jemappes, he reentered as a private, fought under Hoche in La Vendee, and in Italy under Bonaparte, acquiring the rank of general on the battlefield of Arcole. He was prominent in the Egyptian campaign, and though obliged to capitulate at Cairo, he was promoted in 1801 to the command of a division, and in 1805 to that of Murat's staff. After aiding in the occupation of Madrid, he remained in command there from 1808 till the Russian campaign of 1812, in which he covered himself with glory, especially at the battle of the Moskva. Though severely wounded, he was active in reorganizing the French cavalry after its return to Germany, and lost an arm at Leipsic. Winning new honors at Craonne, he was placed at the head of the cavalry, and received from the emperor, April 3, 1814, the grand cordon of the legion of honor.

Louis XVIII. raised him to the peerage, June 4, and to the rank of major general; but having during the hundred days served again under Napoleon, he was after the second restoration kept in restraint till June 3,1816, and deprived of his peerage till March 5, 1819. In March, 1831, Louis Philippe sent him as ambassador to Brussels, where he made himself very useful to the cause of Belgian independence. His townsmen honored him with a monument, and Vinet published his autobiography (Memoires du general Belliard, ecrits par lui-meme, 3 vols., Paris, 1834).