François Jean-Philippe de Boccard

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François Jean-Philippe de Boccard (born March 31, 1696 in Vuippens ( Gruyère district ), † February 24, 1782 in Friborg ) was a Swiss soldier in French service in the Age of Enlightenment and was Maréchal de camp on almost all of King Ludwig's campaigns XV. involved. He also held the position of lieutenant-général .

Life

François Jean-Philippe (actually François Joseph Philippe Jean) de Boccard was the son of Pierre-Nicolas, Bailli de Vuippens, and Marie Catherine Rose de Maillard. His brother was the future Bishop of Lausanne , Joseph Hubert de Boccard.

Regiment de Boccard, flag 1752
Regiment de Boccard, uniform 1762

François de Boccard began his military career in the service of France as a cadet in the company of François de Reynold in the Régiment de Castella in August 1716. From 1718 he became an ensign in the Regiment Gardes Suisses , in which he was then Sous-lieutenant (1720), aide-major (1729) and became major on April 13, 1738. On March 30, 1735 he was awarded the Ordre royal et militaire de Saint-Louis (Chevalier de Saint-Louis). He took part in the campaigns on the Rhine (1734-1735), in Flanders, Alsace and Brabant (1742-1748), and was promoted to brigadier des armes du roi on June 1, 1745 . He was involved in the sieges of Phillipsburg and Ypres and distinguished himself in the battle of Fontenoy . On May 10, 1748, he was promoted to Maréchal de camp . From March 12, 1752 he left the Swiss Guard and received his own infantry regiment as regiment owner, the former Swiss regiment "Fégely de Seedorff", which until 1782 was called Régiment de Boccard . In addition, Louis XV made him governor of the city of Roermond , which he remained until June 28, 1758, when he had to surrender the city to Hanoverian-Prussian troops during the Seven Years' War (the city was until July 17 by remnants of the Dreves regiment under Lieutenant Colonel Gottlieb Christian von Ramdohr , after which it again fell into French hands and was again occupied by Colonel Heinrich Wilhelm von Linstow from Hanover on July 24th to August 3rd ).

On December 17, 1759, Boccard was awarded the position of lieutenant-général. From 1762 Boccard withdrew into private life. In 1765 , François-Jean-Philippe de Boccard secured the collaboration of the painter Gottfried Locher, among others, for the renovation of the family seat, Jetschwil Castle . From 1770 Boccard was the owner of the castle and estate Jetschwil, which had been in the family since 1710 when his mother Marie-Rose de Maillard, the wife of Pierre-Nicolas de Boccard, owned it by her sister Marie-Marguerite de Pontherose had acquired the estate.

François-Philippe was a member of a Masonic Lodge (Première Loge de franc-maçons) in the canton of Friborg. In 1774 he was promoted to command of the Order of Saint-Louis. He died unmarried in Friborg in February 1782.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joseph was bishop from May 1746
  2. ^ Entry on the homepage of the Historical Lexicon of Switzerland
  3. ↑ Georg von Wissel: History of the establishment of all Chur-Braunschweig-Lüneburg troops together ... Published by Johann Dietr. Schultze, Celle 1786, p. 868
  4. ^ Google digitized version of the journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies, Volume 43, 1909, p. 114
personal data
SURNAME Boccard, François Jean-Philippe de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss military in French service
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1696
PLACE OF BIRTH Vuippens , ( Gruyère district )
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1782
Place of death Freiburg