Jean-Baptiste Annibal Aubert du Bayet
Jean-Baptiste Annibal Aubert du Bayet (born August 19, 1757 in Baton Rouge , Louisiana ( New France ); † December 17, 1797 in Constantinople ) was a politician and French general who excelled in the First Coalition War , especially during the siege of Mainz by Prussian and Austrian troops.
Life
The son of a captain of the infantry , he took part in the American Revolutionary War in 1775 at the age of 18 as a sous-lieutenant .
In 1784 he went to Metz, France, as captain . From his uncle Bayet he inherited a property in Corenc called Bachais and land in Sassenage (Isère), and from then on added du Bayet to his name. In 1791 he was elected Deputy of the Isère Department and President of the National Assembly. During the siege of Mainz (1793) , he defended the city of Mainz at the side of General Kléber before its surrender, which did not prevent the government from imprisoning him during the reign of terror .
During the Directoire he was appointed Général en chef of the Armée des côtes de Cherbourg . At the end of 1795 he took over the Ministry of War , with Pierre Riel de Beurnonville as his adjutant, but left it again on February 8, 1796. Shortly afterwards, Aubert Bayet received his nomination as ambassador of France at the Sublime Porte in Constantinople. There he renewed relations between France and Turkey (since January 1797). His adjutant at the Sublime Porte was Armand de Caulaincourt . On December 17, 1797 he died of a fever while serving as ambassador to France. He was buried in the Pera district of the Ottoman capital. Today his grave is gone.
plant
- Loi Relative à la correction des décrets portant vente de biens nationaux, et qui suspend l'impression de ces mêmes décrets , donnée à Paris, le 6 Mars 1791; JM Cuchet, Grenoble 1791
literature
- Comte de Fazi du Bayet: Les Généraux Aubert du Bayet, Carra de Saint-Cyr et Charpentier . Correspondances et notices biographiques 1757–1834., Champion, Paris 1902.
- Karl Florentin Leidenfrost : French Heldensaal or the life, deeds and current fates of the most memorable heroes of the republic and the empire, in particular Napoleon's comrades in arms and marshals , Bernhard Friedrich Voigt , Ilmenau 1828, pp. 14-16.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Officiers de Nouvelle-France ( Memento of February 27, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Dictionnaire des officiers de l'Armee Royale qui ont combattu aux Etats-Unis pendant la Guerre d'independance 1776–1783
- ^ City page by Corenc ( Memento from October 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ List of Defense Ministers of France #Ministers of War (1791–1940)
- ^ Gallica Herbette, Maurice. Une ambassade turque sous le Directoire….
- ^ Caulaincourt, Armand Augustin Louis de . In: Brockhaus Konversations-Lexikon 1894–1896, Volume 4, p. 3.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Aubert du Bayet, Jean-Baptiste Annibal |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French politician and general |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 19, 1757 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Baton Rouge , Louisiana, New France |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 7, 1797 |
| Place of death | Constantinople |