Charles Marie Auguste de Beaumont d'Autichamp

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Charles Marie Auguste de Beaumont d'Autichamp

Charles Marie Auguste de Beaumont, comte d'Autichamp (born August 8, 1770 in Angers , † October 6, 1852 in Lhoumois ) was a French Général de division .

Life

Autichamp was captain of the guard in Paris and since 1792 one of the most active leaders of the Vendée uprising . But he submitted to the Treaty of Montfaucon in 1800 and entered Bonaparte's service, after his fall became lieutenant-général and peer and tried to stir up an uprising in favor of the Bourbons during the Hundred Days in Anjou .

In 1823 he commanded the first division of the French army in Spain, after the July Revolution of 1830 he re-headed the troubled Vendéer and was therefore sentenced to death in contumaciam in 1833 , but given an amnesty.

Withdrawn he died on October 6, 1852.

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