Luc Siméon Auguste Dagobert
Luc Siméon Auguste Dagobert de Fontenille (born March 8, 1736 in La Chapelle-en-Juger near Saint-Lô , † April 18, 1794 in Puigcerdà ) was a French general at the time of the French Revolution .
biography
Dagobert fought in the Seven Years' War as an officer in the Régiment de Touraine , including the Battle of Minden . With this army he traveled to Corsica in 1769 , where he met the Bonaparte family , then still Buonaparte .
His marriage on August 8, 1780 to Jacquette Pailhoux de Cascastel allowed him to found an iron forge and use the mines of Les Corbières and Le Razès for his own purposes. Between 1780 and 1794 he wrote three memoirs with reflections on the organization of the army.
In 1789 he and Louis-Philippe d'Orléans supported the idea of the French Revolution. In May 1792 Dagobert was sent to the Colonel and after the outbreak of the First Coalition War in the "Armée du Var". In this unit, which had the task of protecting Provence from enemy incursions, he was able to celebrate several successes. In September 1792 they led to his appointment as Maréchal de camp , when he joined the "Italian Army". In a battle in front of Nice he earned his laurels, which brought him the appointment to the general de division .
After the National Convention declared war on Spain on March 7, 1793 , Dagobert went to the Pyrenees and received a unit of 8,000 men. On May 19, he managed to repel a Spanish attack and later stop a Spanish advance on Perpignan . Dagobert was appointed commander-in-chief of the armed forces in the Central Pyrenees and in this position managed to conquer the Spanish-occupied city of Puigcerdà on August 29, 1793 and to wrest the Cerdanya region from the Iberians . On September 4, 1793 he was able to inflict a crushing defeat on the Perche Pass near the fortress of Mont-Louis and capture eight enemy artillery. However, after he was defeated on September 27 at Truillas, he resigned the post of commander of the Pyrenees armed forces.
After his defeat in the Pyrenees, Dagobert traveled to Paris and was imprisoned there, but was reinstated in his old office shortly afterwards.
In April 1794 he invaded Catalonia with his troops and captured the city of Urgel on April 10, 1794. Eight days later, however, he died of an illness in Puycerda.
Honors
His name is entered on the triumphal arch in Paris in the 33rd column.
literature
- Arthur Chuquet : Le général Dagobert (1736-1794). L'armée sous l'ancien regime et sous la révolution . Fontemoing, Paris 1913.
- Roger R. Dagobert: Le Roi Dagobert. Histoire d'une famille et d'une chanson . Self-published, Nîmes 1990.
- Mme Destors: Notes et histoire de la Famille Dagobert . (unpublished)
- Joseph-Napoléon Fervel: Campagnes de la révolution française dans les Pyrénées-Orientales et description topographique de cette moitie de la chaîne pyrénéenne . Lacour-Ollé, Nîmes 2007, ISBN 978-2-7504-1970-7 .
- Christian Laroze: Le général Dagobert (1736-1794). Un enfant de la chapelle enjuger . Le Tourp, Omonville-la-Rogue 2001
- Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve : Nouveaux Lundis . Calman-Lévy, Paris 1910 (especially the 2nd volume)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Biographies roussillonnaises de l'abbé Capeille: Dagobert de Fontenille (1736-1794) Accessed March 31, 2009
- ↑ fr: Luc Siméon Auguste Dagobert # Avant la Révolution
- ^ A b Le général Dagobert: Général de la révolution L'association des "Amis de Mont-Louis", accessed on March 31, 2009
- ↑ fr: Luc Siméon Auguste Dagobert # Sous la Révolution française
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dagobert, Luc Siméon Auguste |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fontenille, Luc Siméon Auguste Dagobert de (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French general |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 8, 1736 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | La Chapelle-en-Juger near Saint-Lô |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 18, 1794 |
| Place of death | Puigcerdà |