Michel de Beaupuy

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Michel Armand Bacharetie de Beaupuy, as a sous-lieutenant in the Régiment de Bassigny (anonymous miniature of the 18th century)

Michel-Armand Bacharetie de Beaupuy , (born July 14, 1755 in Saint-Médard-de-Mussidan ( Dordogne ), † October 19, 1796 in Höllental (Black Forest) ) was a French Général de division .

Life

Michel de Beaupuy was the child of a noble family from the Périgord . At the age of 16 he joined the Régiment d'Aunis of the royal army as a simple soldier in 1771 , and on March 2, 1773 was promoted to Sous-lieutenant . After the delivery of two battalions to the reorganization of the Régiment de Bassigny on April 26, 1775 de Beaupuy moved to this unit. On May 27, 1785, de Beaupuy was promoted to lieutenant in the Grenadier Battalion.

On September 15, 1791, he was promoted to Capitaine in the 32e e régiment d'infanterie . On July 14, 1792, he took command of the grenadier battalion of his regiment. On October 21, 1792 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and then commanded a volunteer battalion from the Dordogne , where he was able to distinguish himself several times.

De Beaupuy took part in the siege of Mainz in 1793 and was then promoted to Général de brigade on August 31, 1793 . Submitted to the Armée des côtes de Brest to fight the rebels loyal to the king in the Vendée , he then fought in the campaign of the Virée de Galerne . He was wounded in the battle of La Tremblaye and, despite his wound, took part in the defense against the siege of Angers . He suffered another wound on October 26, 1793 in the battle of Entrammes . During the campaign in the Vendée he also fought:

In 1794, de Beaupuy was assigned to the Armée de Rhin-et-Moselle , which operated in Germany and was promoted to the Général de division, this promotion was confirmed by the Welfare Committee on January 15, 1795. On November 14, 1795 he was able to distinguish himself in the battle near Frankenthal . On June 26, 1796 he was wounded by seven sword blows in the battle near Kork . He then fought from August 10 to 12, 1796 in the battle of Neresheim . This was followed on September 1st, participation in the victory in the battle near Geisenfeld and in the battle of Biberach on October 2nd, 1796.

He then commanded the rearguard during Général Moreau's retreat through the Black Forest. He was fatally wounded by a cannonball in the battle of Emmendingen in Höllental on October 19, 1796 and buried in Neuf-Brisach on October 22.

Honors

In 1801 a memorial was started in the area of ​​the municipality of Volgelsheim. In the late 1850s, the monument was still unfinished, shabby and covered in vegetation. As the 63 e régiment d'infantry in 1861 as a garrison force to Neuf-Brisach came, the monument was at the instigation of the regimental commander Colonel Ferru, restored and completed. The costs were borne by the members of the regiment, as well as the cities of Neuf-Brisach and Mussidan . On the finished memorial the inscription was found:

L'armée de Rhin et de Moselle au général de division Bachartie
de Beaupuy
né à Mussidan, Dordogne le 14 juillet 1755

There are no pictures of the memorial destroyed during the fighting in 1940. Records in the Vogelsheim community archive describe it as modeled on the mausoleums of Rome and Athens . The present monument was erected in 1979.

  • Général Beaupuy

  • Depicted wounding of Beaupuy in the battle at Entrammes

  • Name engraved on the Arc de triomphe de l'Étoile: East pillar, 18th column

On April 19, 1897, a monument with a bronze statue of the general on a pedestal was erected in Mussidan. The statue was created by the sculptor Adlophe Rivet (1855–1925).

literature

  • Jacques de Feytaud: Études sur le sang royal. Les de Brégeas. monographie imprimée, BnF notice n ° FRBNF33006199, libre de droits, pp. 95–96.
  • Michel-Armand Beauchartie de Beaupuy. In: Paul Huot: des Vosges au Rhin, excursions et causeries alsaciennes. Veuve Berger-Levrault & Fils, Paris 1868, p. 286.
  • Georges Six: Dictionnaire biographique des généraux et amiraux français de la Révolution et de l'Empire: 1792–1814. Paris 1934, pp. 68-69 ( gallica.bnf.fr ).

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b Michel-Armand Beauchartie de Beaupuy. In: Paul Huot: des Vosges au Rhin, excursions et causeries alsaciennes. 1868, p. 286 ( books.google.fr ).
  2. ↑ Short biography: Beaupuy, Michel and Monument au général Beaupuy musee-orsay.fr (photograph of a monument in Mussidan 1897).


personal data
SURNAME Beaupuy, Michel de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beaupuy, Armand-Michel Bacharetie de (full name); Beaupuy, Michel-Armand Beauchartie de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French general
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1755
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Médard-de-Mussidan
DATE OF DEATH October 19, 1796
Place of death Emmendingen