Roustan
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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.