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See also:ANTOINE See also:JOSEPH See also:SANTERRE (1752-1809)
, See also:French revolutionist, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 16th of See also: See also:Santerre was appointed marechal de See also:camp on the 23rd of See also:October 1792, and subsequently general of See also:division . In May 1793 he was temporarily replaced as See also:commander of the National Guard in Paris, so that he might take command of a force which he had organized to operate in La See also:Vendee . As a military commander he was not a conspicuous success, his debut being signalized by the defeat of the republicans at See also:Saumur . He was variously reported to have been wounded and killed in this affair, and the wits of the reactionary party circulated his See also:epitaph: Ci-grit le general Santerre Qus n'eut de Mars que la biere . He was scarcely more popular among the sans-culottes of his See also:army . Wounded soldiers, returned to Paris, reported that he was living let-bas, " in See also:Oriental luxury," and complained that, since their defeat had been due either to his See also:treason or his incompetence, he should have been either guillotined " like other generals " or superseded . He was, however, not in supreme command, and therefore not responsible for the See also:ill conduct of the See also:war; he distinguished himself in various actions; and when, in October, he returned to Paris his popularity in the faubourg St Antoine was undiminished . But his See also:report on this expedition, in which he See also:drew See also:attention to the evil See also:plight of the republican arms in the Vendee, aroused suspicion . He was accused of " Orleanism " and imprisoned, and was not released until after the fall of See also:Robespierre . He then gave in his resignation as general, and returned to commerce_; but his brewery was ruined, and after many vicissitudes of See also:fortune he died in poverty in Paris on the 6th of See also:February 18o9 . See A . Carro, Santerre general de la republique francaise (Paris, 1847), compiled from Santerre's MS. notes; P . Robiquet, Le Personnel municipal de Paris See also:pendant la Revolution (Paris, 189o); C . L . Chassin, La Vendee et la Chouannerie (Paris, 1892 seq.); " L'Etat See also:des services de Santerre dresse See also:par lui-meme," in the third See also:volume of Souvenirs et memoires (1899), published by See also:Paul Bonnefon . |
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