Jean Hugues Chancel

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Jean Hugues Théophile Chancel (born January 12, 1766 in Loriol-sur-Drôme , † November 9, 1834 in Blotzheim ) was a colonel in the French army and commander of the Hüningen fortress .

Life

Withdrawal of the French garrison from Hüningen Fortress in 1815

Chancel was a French soldier who joined the army of the Kingdom of France in 1784 . In 1787 he was released and in 1791 he rejoined the Revolutionary Army as a Sous-lieutenant . There he quickly advanced to Capitaine (1792) and 1794 to Chef de bataillon . He took part in the Italian campaign. In the battle of Meßkirch (1800) he lost his right arm. On July 22, 1801 he was appointed commandant of the Hüningen Fortress . He also held this post during the two sieges of the fortress in 1814 and 1815. After the fall of Napoleon , like many Napoleonic officers, he again served the kingdom. After the fortress of Hüningen capitulated on August 26th, he retired on September 9th, 1815.

1815-1817 he was mayor of Belfort . In 1820 he settled in Blotzheim, where he was mayor from 1828 to 1831.

Honors

On March 25, 1804 - under Napoleon - he was awarded the Knight's Order of the Legion of Honor . King Louis XVIII then awarded him on November 1, 1814 the Ordre royal et militaire de Saint-Louis and on August 9, 1820 he was promoted to honorary Maréchal de camp .

literature

  • Joseph Schmidlin: History of the Sundgau from the location of a rural community or History of Village and Bann Blotzheim , St. Ludwig 1906, p. 658 in the Internet Archive
  • A. Liévyns, Jean-Maurice Verdot, Pierre Bégat: Fastes de la légion-d'honneur: biographie de tous les décorés accompagnée de l'histoire législative et réglementaire de l'ordre , Paris 1846, volume 4, p. 241 online at gallica
  • Karl Tschamber : History of the city and former fortress Hüningen . St. Ludwig (Saint Louis) 1894 in the Internet Archive
  • Justin Brun-Durand: Dictionnaire biographique et biblio-iconographique de la Drôme. tome II. HZ, p. 421–422 online at gallica

Web links

Individual references / comments

  1. ↑ s. Entry on www.francegenweb.org; Retrieved September 25, 2013
  2. ↑ s. Entry on www.francegenweb.org; Retrieved September 25, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Chancel, Jean Hugues
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chancel, Jean Hugues Théophile (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French fortress commander of Hüningen
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1766
PLACE OF BIRTH Loriol-sur-Drôme
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1834
Place of death Blotzheim