The Association pour la Conservation des Monuments Napoléoniens was founded in 1982 with the principal objectives of protecting, restoring and maintaining existing monuments and other Napoleonic sites, and of erecting new memorials, in France and further afield. This plaque in memory of General Pierre-François Bauduin (1768–1815), a veteran of Napoleon’s Italian and Russian campaigns who commanded a brigade at Waterloo, was placed by the Association on the south wall of Hougoumont, in front of which he was mortally wounded.