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ABRAHAM DE FABERT (1599-166o)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 113 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ABRAHAM DE See also:FABERT (1599-166o)  , See also:marshal of See also:France, was the son of See also:Abraham See also:Fabert, seigneur de See also:Moulins (d . 1638), a famous printer who rendered See also:great services, See also:civil and military, to See also:Henry IV . At the See also:age of fourteen he entered the Gardes francaises, and in 1618 received a See also:commission in the See also:Piedmont See also:regiment, becoming See also:major in 1627 . He distinguished himself repeatedly in the See also:constant See also:wars of the See also:period, notably in La Rochelle and at the See also:siege of Exilles in 163o . His bravery and See also:engineering skill were again displayed in the sieges of See also:Avesnes and See also:Maubeuge in 1637, and in 1642 See also:Louis XIII. made him See also:governor of the recently-acquired fortress of See also:Sedan . In 1651 he became See also:lieutenant-See also:general, and in 16J4 at the siege of Stenay he introduced new methods of siegecraft which anticipated in a measure the great improvements of See also:Vauban . In 1658 Fabert was made a marshal of France, being the first commoner to attain that See also:rank . He died at Sedan on the 17th of May 166o . See Histoire du marechal de Fabert (See also:Amsterdam, 1697) ; P . See also:Barre, See also:Vie de Fabert (See also:Paris, 1752) ; A . Feillet, Le Premier Marechal de France plebeien (Paris, 1869) ; Bourelly, Le Marechal Fabert (Paris, 188o) .

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