Roustan
Roustan or
Rustam, is the nickname of
Napoleon Bonaparte's famous bodyguard
Rostom Razmadze. Roustan was born in
Tbilisi, and was considered to be
Georgian.
Rustam was kidnapped when he was a child and sold as a
slave in
Cairo. One of the local authorities presented a young slave to General Napoleon Bonaparte in
1798. Thus, Rustam (French form: Roustan) became a bodyguard of Napoleon till
1814, when the former married Mademoiselle Douville in
Dourdan,
France and refused to follow the
Emperor in his exile to
Elba.
