Jacques Bernard d'Anselme
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Jacques Bernard Modeste d'Anselme (22 July 1740, Apt – 17 September 1814, Paris) was a French general of the French Revolutionary Army, notable as the first commander of the Army of the Var which soon became the Army of Italy. He fell under suspicion, was removed from command and placed under arrest, but he survived the Reign of Terror. ANSELME is one of the names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe, on Column 23.
Biography
He became a
Regiment of Soissons. As lieutenant general, he took Nice and the fortresses of Mont Alban (French: Fort du mont Alban) and Villefranche-sur-Mer in 1792, but was defeated at Sospello and imprisoned until the revolution of Thermidor.[1] His name is inscribed on the Arc de Triomphe
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References
- Pierre Larousse, Grand Dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle, 15 volumes, 1863–1890.
- Louis Gabriel Michaud, Biographie universelle ancienne et moderne, 35 vol., 1773–1858.
- ISBN 978-1-908692-26-9.
- Six, Georges (1934). "Anselme (Jacques-Bernard-Modeste d')". Dictionnaire biographique des généraux et amiraux français de la Révolution et de l'Empire: 1792–1814 (in French). Vol. 1. Paris: Librairie Historique et Nobilaire. p. 16.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
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