Louis Michel Auguste Thévenet

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Louis Michel Auguste Thévenet (also: Louis Michel Auguste Danican ) (born March 28, 1764 in Paris , † December 17, 1848 in Itzehoe ) was a French general.

Life

Louis Michel Auguste Thévenet came from an impoverished aristocratic family.

He volunteered in the Navy in June 1779 (marine sur l'Amphytrite) and was a soldier in the Régiment de Barrois from November 1782 to April 1786 . From December 1786 to September 1788 he was a rider in the Régiment de Quercy-Cavalerie and during the French Revolution he was with the Queen's gendarmes, the Maréchaussée, from December 1787 to April 1788 . In 1789 he switched to the National Guard . In July 1792 he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in the Légion du Midi. On October 1, 1792, he came to the hussar unit Eclaireurs de Fabrefonds and shortly thereafter to the 8 e régiment de hussards . On May 28, 1793 he became a brigade commander there. In September 1793 he was promoted to the Général de brigade .

Due to his failures in the fighting, he was suspected of sympathizing with the enemy and in November 1793 Louis Michel Auguste Thévenet was suspended. In April 1794 he was reinstated with the help of General Edmond Dubois-Crancé and then served in Lower Normandy and the Maine Province until he announced his resignation in September 1795. For testifying at the National Convention against other generals (Adjutant General Bonland, General Turreau and General Francois Vachot) who had committed atrocities in the Vendee, he was sentenced to death in absentia by the royalist department. He then fled to other German countries and worked there as an agent for German princes.

He later secretly returned to France and was a police access during the coup d'etat on September 4, 1797 in Switzerland to escape. In 1800 he moved to Piedmont and became Maréchal de camp there . From there he went to England for an unknown time and returned to France after the Restoration . He was accepted into the army but did not regain his general rank. He later went back to England and served in the military.

After his retirement in 1818 he moved to Germany about and had in Itzehoe domiciled, in the summer he lived in nearby Breitenburg at his country house Plage mountain , which he for his daughter in Charlottenberg renamed. There and in Itzehoe he maintained contacts with the writer Johann Gottwerth Müller . He was also active as a writer and wrote essays for the Itzehoer Wochenblatt.

He was married to an English woman and had several daughters. After the death of his first wife, he married her sister, but the marriage remained childless. His great-granddaughter Helene Gries-Danican later became a well-known painter.

Works

  • Notice on le 13 vendémiaire, ou Les Parisiens vengés, dédié aux veuves et orphelins des Français assassinés par la Convention - 1796 [1]
  • The brigands démasqués, ou mémoire pour servir à l'histoire du temps present. - 179 6 [2]
  • Cassandra or Consequences of the French Revolution: freely translated from the French with additions about the more recent events up to the late year 1799 . Cairo, 1799. [3]

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New nekrolog der Deutschen ... BF Voigt., 1850 ( google.de [accessed on October 13, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Amicale du 8 ° Hussards: Amicale du 8 ° Hussards: Danican dit Thevenet. Retrieved October 13, 2017 .
  3. ^ Louis Marie Turreau - NapoleonWiki. Retrieved October 14, 2017 .
  4. ^ Peter C. Clavadetscher: "Quatrevingtquatorze" . Peter Clavadetscher, 2008 ( google.de [accessed on October 13, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Thévenet, Louis Michel Auguste
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Danican, Louis Michel Auguste
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French general
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1764
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH December 17, 1848
Place of death Itzehoe