Louis Michel Antoine Sahuc

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General Michel Antoine Sahuc

Louis Michel Antoine Sahuc (born January 7, 1755 in Mello , Oise department , † October 24, 1813 in Frankfurt am Main , Germany ) was a French cavalry general and politician.

Live and act

At the age of 17, Sahuc volunteered for the army in 1772 and joined the Régiment Royal-Lorraine cavalerie . At the beginning of the revolution he moved to the Armée du Nord as an officer and five years later came to the Armée de Sambre-et-Meuse with the rank of Chef de brigade .

At the beginning of the second coalition war , Sahuc became a général de brigade member of the staff of General Antoine Richepanse (1770–1802) and fought under his command a. a. near Stockach (May 3, 1800) and Hohenlinden (December 3, 1800). Since Sahuc had supported Napoleon Bonaparte in his putsch on November 9, 1799 , he was appointed a member of the Tribunate in 1801 at his instigation .

In the following Kolaitios War Sahuc took part in the fighting at Haslach-Jungingen (October 11, 1805), Elchingen (October 14, 2805) and Austerlitz (December 2, 1805).

Effective January 4, 1806, Sahuc was promoted to général de division by Napoleon and he fought a. a. near Auerstedt (October 14, 1806) and near Mohrungen (January 25, 1807).

In the fifth coalition war, Sahuc fought at Sacile (April 16, 1809), at the Piave (May 8, 1809), at Raab (June 14, 1809) and at Wagram (July 5-6, 1809). Then Sahuc was able to return to Paris , where he represented the Oise department as a member of parliament until 1812. During this time as a Member of Parliament, he lived in his palace in Montmagny ( Département Val-d'Oise ) with his wife Anne-Françoise, daughter of the military doctor Claude Antoine Lombard .

From 1812 Sahuc was in the rank of inspector general responsible for the military supply of the Grande Armée between the Rhine and Oder. On his second inspection tour he fell ill with typhus in Frankfurt am Main and died a few days later. Sahuc found his final resting place in the cemetery of the Frankfurt garrison.

Honors

literature

  • David G. Chandler : The campaigns of Napoleon . Weidenfeld, London 1993, ISBN 0-297-81367-6 (reprint of the London 1966 edition)
  • Adolphe Robert, Gaston Cougny: Dictionnaire des parlementaires français, Vol. 5: Pla-Zuy . Slatkine, Geneva 2000, ISBN 2-05-101711-5 (reprint of the Paris 1892 edition)
  • Charles Mullié: Biography of the célébrités militaires des armées de terre et de mer de 1789 à 1850, vol. 2 . Poignavant, Paris 1852.
  • Digby Smith : The Greenhill Napoleonic Wars data book . Greenhill Books, London 1998, ISBN 1-85367-276-9 .

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personal data
SURNAME Sahuc, Louis Michel Antoine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French cavalry general and politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1755
PLACE OF BIRTH Mello , Oise department
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 1813
Place of death Frankfurt am Main , Germany