Jean-François Carteaux
Jean-François Carteaux (born January 31, 1751 in Gouhenans (in today's Haute-Saône ), † April 12, 1813 in Paris ) was a general in the French army .
biography
As the son of a dragoon of the Régiment Royal-Pologne cavalerie in Thianges , he grew up in the garrison and moved with his father to the Hôtel des Invalides in Paris , where he was educated according to his position. The painter Gabriel François Doyen noticed his talent for drawing early on and trained him with rapid success. Due to his father's influence, he continued to go through military training in various regiments, but kept coming back to the canvas, creating several well-known historical and battle pictures. After various trips through Europe, he returned to France at the time of the French Revolution and quickly became a follower of its principles. In July 1789 he became adjutant to the military governor of Paris . At the same time he created an equestrian portrait of Louis XVI in 1791 .
As Sous-Lieutenant of the National Guard founded by the Revolution , he distinguished himself during the storming of the Tuileries on August 10, 1792, after which he first became Adjutant General and then commander of a division of the Armée des Alpes (Alpine Army).
Sent into the field against the insurgent royalists in Provence in the south of France, he defeated them at Pont-Saint-Esprit on July 13, 1793, advanced into Avignon on July 25, 1793, and defeated and dispersed them again in Cadenet. On August 25th, Marseille surrendered .
Then he was ordered by the French National Convention to carry out the siege of Toulon (1793) in 1793 . However, he did not succeed in taking the city, so he was replaced by General Jacques François Dugommier . The subsequent conquest of the city was largely due to the plans of the then subordinate Napoleon Bonaparte .
Carteaux was then given command of the French Armée d'Italie (Italian Army) and the Armée des Alpes (Alpine Army). In Marseille he was arrested on January 2, 1794 by order of the Welfare Committee and imprisoned on January 2, 1794 in the Conciergerie in Paris. Set free after the fall of Robespierre , he still held positions in the French National Lottery and in the Principality of Piombino before retiring in 1805 .
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- Jean François Carteaux * in Charles Mullié , Biographie des célébrités militaires des armées de terre et de mer de 1789 à 1850 , 1852
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Carteaux, Jean-François |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | General of the French Army |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 31, 1751 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gouhenans |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 12, 1813 |
| Place of death | Paris |