Louis-François Jeannet, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French general
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Place of Birth: Arcis-sur-Aube, Grand Est, France
About Louis-François Jeannet
- Louis-François Jeannet (5 November 1768 in Arcis-sur-Aube – 23 July 1832 in Bourg) was a French general. Born to a merchant family and brother of Nicolas Georges Jeannet-Oudin, Jeannet joined the Army on 10 August 1784 in the Royal-Infanterie.
- At the outbreak of the French Revolution, he joined a battalion of National Volunteers, rising to sous-lieutenant in the 4th Dragoon regiment on 4 April 1792, full lieutenant in August, and Captain on 15 October in the Légion des Ardennes. Jeannet took part in the Battle of Jemappes, where he was wounded.
- He was promoted to Chef d’escadron (major) in the 16e Régiment de chasseurs à cheval, and served as an aid to general Picot-Dampierre in the Army of the North, taking part in the Battle of Famars.
- He was promoted to colonel on 7 September 1793. Jeannet was then transferred to the Army of the Alps as chief of Staff to general Kellermann.
- He served in the Italian campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars, and captained the National Guard for the departments of Ain, Isère and Mont-Blanc. In 1796, he was transferred to the Armée de Hollande. On 1 October 1799, Jeannet was sent to Guadeloupe, and promoted to acting brigadier general on 14 juillet 1800. Jeannet returned to France on 5 July 1801 aboard the frigate Cornélie, and retired.
- In 1810, he took up his commission again, serving in Holland, and in Spain during the Peninsular War.
- He distinguished himself at the Battle of Vitoria on 21 June 1813, and was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour on 1 September 1813.
- He took part in the Battle of Brienne (29 January 1814), of Montmirail (11 February) and of Arcis-sur-Aube (20 March).
- On 15 May, his commissioned as a brigadier general was confirmed. At the Bourbon Restauration in 1814, he was forced to retire, and was appointed Knight of the Order of Saint-Louis on 13 February 1815.
- During the Hundred Days, and put in charge of the département of Ain.
- After the Battle of Waterloo, he retreated behind the Loire river and attempted to obtain a military commission again, attempting the raise battalions of Federates in Ain with the help of prefect Jean-Jacques Baude, but he had to retire again.
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