Jacques Alexis de Verteuil
Jacques Alexis de Verteuil (26 March 1726 – 24 December 1793) was a French general and chevalier of the Order of the Holy Spirit (1770). Having served in
revolt in the Vendée. Captured at Savenay, he was executed as a prisoner of the National Convention for his counter-revolutionary activities (condemned as a "brigand") in the Vendée.[2]
Born at
Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, Marie du Pont du Vivier de Gourville,[3] daughter of the seigneur de Gourville, a title he inherited.[4]
Notes
- ^ Louis Prévost La Boutetière, Le chevalier de Sapinaud et les chefs vendéens du centre 1869:15, noting Verteuil's letter-book (journal-minute) in the archives of Vendée.
- ^ "Jacques Alexis de Verteuil". Archived from the original on 2013-01-15. Retrieved 2012-04-20.
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