Gaspard de Bernard de Marigny

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Gaspard de Bernard de Marigny with the Order of Saint Ludwig

Gaspard Augustin René Bernard de Marigny (born November 2, 1754 in Luçon , † July 10, 1794 in Combrand , Poitou-Charentes ) was a loyal French officer and general in the Armée catholique et royale de Vendée during the uprising there .

biography

Under the Ancien Régime , de Marigny was a lieutenant in the Royal Navy ( La Royale ), took part in the American War of Independence and was awarded the Ordre de Saint-Louis . In the turmoil of the French Revolution, he defended King Louis XVI with the help of the royal guard in 1792 . and his family during the Tuileries Storm in Paris. When the Vendée uprising (1793–1796) broke out shortly afterwards, he switched to the side of the royalist and Catholic-minded rebels and was appointed artillery general. He took part in the victorious battles of Thouars (March 5, 1793) and Saumur (June 9, 1793) as well as in the loss-making retreat and crossing over the Loire ( Virée de Galerne ; October 17/18, 1793).

He was probably also responsible for the massacre of hundreds of captured supporters of the republic (July 5, 1793) during the again victorious battle of Châtillon . Later he is said to have killed some opponents with his own hands - the Marquise Victoire de Donnissan de La Rochejaquelein (1772–1857), who was present at the side of her first husband Louis de Salgues de Lescure during the armed conflict of 1793, wrote:

War spoils the character. M. de Marigny, one of the best and most respectable men I have known, had become bloodthirsty.

In April 1794 he signed an alliance with Generals Stofflet , Charette and Sapinaud ; shortly afterwards he fell out with Stofflet, who did not use him in a leading position and disappeared. A court martial was then called that sentenced him to death on April 25, 1794 for failing to appear in absentia . Marigny, meanwhile, fell ill and had withdrawn to La Girardière Castle near Combrand, where he was arrested on July 10, 1794 and shot dead by Stofflet's soldiers .

literature

  • Émile Gabory: Les Guerres de Vendée. Robert Laffont 2009, pp. 1436-1437.

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personal data
SURNAME Marigny, Gaspard de Bernard de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marigny, Gaspard Augustin René Bernard de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French officer and general
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1754
PLACE OF BIRTH Luçon
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 1794
Place of death Combrand