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JEAN NICOLAS STOFFLET (1751-1796)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 939 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JEAN See also:NICOLAS See also:STOFFLET (1751-1796)  , Vendean See also:general, was See also:born at See also:Luneville, the son of a See also:miller . See also:Long a private soldier in a Swiss See also:regiment in See also:France, and afterward' See also:game-keeper to the See also:comte de See also:Colbert-Maulevrier, he joined the Vendeans when they See also:rose against the Revolution to defend their religious and royalist principles . During the See also:war in La See also:Vendee he served first under Gigot d'Elbee, fought at Fontenay, See also:Cholet and See also:Saumur, and distinguished himself at the battles of Beaupreau, See also:Laval and Antrain . He was appointed See also:major-general of the royalist See also:army, and in 1794 succeeded La Rochejaquelein as See also:commander-in-See also:chief . But his quarrels with another Vendean See also:leader, F . A . Charette, and the reverses sustained by the Vendean arms, led him to give in his submission and to accept the terms of the treaty of La Jaunaie (May 2, 1795) . He, however, soon violated this treaty, and at the instigation of royalist agents took arms in See also:December 1795 on behalf of the See also:count of See also:Provence (the future See also:Louis XVIII.), from whom he had received the See also:rank of marechal-de-See also:camp . This last See also:attempt of See also:Stofflet's failed completely . He was taken prisoner by the republicans, condemned to See also:death by a military See also:commission, and shot at See also:Angers on the 23rd of See also:February 1796 . See General d'Andigne, Memoires, edited by E . Eire (1900—1901) ; C .

Loyer, " Cholet sous la domination de Stof(let," in L'See also:

Anjou historique, vol. iii . (1902-1903) .

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