Jean-Étienne Championnet

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Jean-Étienne Championnet
General of Division
Battles/wars

Jean-Étienne Vachier Championnet (French pronunciation:

Republican French division in many important battles during the French Revolutionary Wars. He became commander-in-chief of the Army of Rome in 1798 and of the Army of Italy in 1799. He died in early 1800 of typhus. His name is one of the names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe
, on Column 3.

Career

Valence

Championnet enlisted in the army at an early age and served in the Great Siege of Gibraltar.[1]

When the

Pichegru he took part in the Rhine campaign of 1793 as a brigade commander, and at Weissenburg and in the Palatinate won the commendation of Lazare Hoche.[1]

At

Rhine Campaign of 1796, he briefly commanded the Army of Sambre and Meuse from 24 January–31 January 1797.[2]

In 1798 Championnet was named commander-in-chief of the Armée de Rome which was protecting the infant

Representatives on mission" (political commissar), was relieved with the accusation of graft, and subsequently imprisoned for a short time.[4]

The following year, however, saw him again in the field as commander-in-chief of the Army of the Alps. This, too, was at first a mere paper force, but after three months' hard work it was able to take the field.[1] After Barthélemy Catherine Joubert was killed at the Battle of Novi, Championnet assumed control over the Army of Italy.[citation needed] The campaign which followed was uniformly unsuccessful and, worn out by the unequal struggle, Championnet died at Antibes in the French Maritime Alps. In 1848 a statue was erected in his honour at Valence.[1]

According to Napoleon, Championette "was brave, full of zeal, active, devoted to his country; he was a good General of Division, an indifferent Commander-in-Chief."[5]

The figure of General Championnet is linked to the traditional carnival of Frosinone, which had been part of the short-lived Parthenopaean Republic, during which a puppet representing the general is carried around the streets of the city and then given to the flames.

Further reading

  • ARC de St Albin, Championnet, ou les Campagnes de Hollande, de Rome et de Naples (Paris, 1860).
  • Clausewitz, Carl von (2020). Napoleon Absent, Coalition Ascendant: The 1799 Campaign in Italy and Switzerland, Volume 1. Trans and ed. Nicholas Murray and Christopher Pringle. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas.
    ISBN 978-0-7006-3025-7
  • Clausewitz, Carl von (2021). The Coalition Crumbles, Napoleon Returns: The 1799 Campaign in Italy and Switzerland, Volume 2. Trans and ed. Nicholas Murray and Christopher Pringle. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas.
    ISBN 978-0-7006-3034-9

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Championnet, Jean Étienne". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 5 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 829–830.
  2. ^ (in French) Charles Clerget, Tableaux des armées françaises: pendant les guerres de la Révolution, R. Chapelot, 1905, pp. 55, 62.
  3. ISBN 9780571249015
    .
  4. ^ Jacques Godechot, La revolution francaise: Chronologie e commente, 1787-1797 (Paris: Perrin, 1988), pp. 242-245.
  5. ISBN 978-1-908692-28-3
    .
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