Amédée Willot

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Amédée Willot

Amédée Willot , completely Victor Amédée Willot, comte de Gramprez (born August 31, 1755 in Belfort , † December 23, 1823 in Santenay , Val-de-Marne ) was a French general and politician .

Live and act

In 1771, at the age of 16, Willot volunteered for the royal army . He was soon able to distinguish himself there and was promoted to Capitaine in 1787 . Enthusiastic about the ideas of the revolution , he joined the revolutionaries in 1789 and from March 1791 was commander of the national guard of Saint-Germain-en-Laye ( Yvelines department ). In June of the same year he joined General Claude Gabriel de Choisy as an aide-de-camp .

With effect from June 1, 1793, General Joseph Servan promoted Willot to Chef de brigade and three weeks later, on June 23, a Representative en mission - appointed by the National Legislative Assembly - promoted him to Général de brigade . On October 4, 1793, Willot was suspected of being a royalist and arrested in Bayonne ( Département Pyrénées-Atlantiques ). His superior, Étienne Deprez-Crassier, was dismissed the same day (for failing to report Willot) and was also jailed four days later.

On January 17, 1795 Willot was released without a trial and was reinstated on April 13 of the same year. With effect from April 11, 1797, Willot was appointed to the Council of Five Hundred and he represented the Bouches-du-Rhône department there . The coup d'état of the 18th Fructidor V (September 4, 1797) ended General Willot's brief political career.

When General Napoleon Bonaparte on 9 September 1799 the coup of power , he said a pardon of all exiles. Willot, who was still associated with the House of Bourbon , distrusted him and remained in exile. Willot stayed in Menorca (1802), London (1803) and the United States (1804) for the following years .

Willot only returned to France after Napoleon's abdication and the Treaty of Fontainebleau (April 11, 1814). When Napoleon Bonaparte left the island of Elba and whose rule of the Hundred Days began, he accompanied King Louis XVIII. and his court in exile in Ghent .

After the Battle of Waterloo (June 18, 1815) and Napoleon's final abdication, King Louis XVIII confirmed. on November 15, 1815 Willot in his rank and sent him as Général de division to the island of Corsica . Willot officially retired on May 6, 1818.

Amédée Willot settled at Château de Grosbois (→ Monument historique ) in Santenay (today Boissy-sur-Léger) and died there on December 23, 1823.

Honors

literature

  • Karl Bleibtreu : Marshals, generals, soldiers of Napoleon. I. VRZ-Verlag, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-931482-63-4 (unchanged edition of Berlin 1899 edition)
  • Jonathan D. Devlin: A problem of royalism. General Amédée Willot and the French Directory . In: Renaissance and modern Studies , Vol. 33 (1989), Issue 1, pp. 125-143, ISSN  0486-3720
  • Charles Mullié: Dictionnaire des célébrités militaires des armées de terre et de mer de 1789 à 1850, vol. 2 . Poignavant, Paris 1952.
  • Georges Six: Dictionnaire biographique des généraux et amiraux français de la Révolution et de l'Émpire. 1792-1814, Vol. 2 . Saffroy, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-901541-06-2 (unchanged reprint of the Paris 1934 edition)
  • Digby Smith : The Greenhill Napoleonic Wars data book . Greenhill Books, London 1998, ISBN 1-85367-276-9 .
  • Jean Tulard (Ed.): Dictionnaire Napoléon . Fayard, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-213-60485-1 .

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personal data
SURNAME Willot, Amédée
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Willot, Victor Amédée, comte de Gramprez
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French general and politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1755
PLACE OF BIRTH Belfort
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1823
Place of death Santenay , Val-de-Marne department