Jean Victor Tharreau, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French general
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Place of Birth: Le May-sur-Ăvre, Pays de la Loire, France
About Jean Victor Tharreau
- Jean Victor Tharreau or Jean Victor Thareau (15 January 1767, BĂŠgrolles-en-Mauges â 26 September 1812), was a General of Division in the Army of the French Empire.Tharreau enthusiastically adopted the revolutionary cause and joined the Maine-et-Loire volunteers in 1792.
- He quickly rose through the command ranks.
- By 1795, he was chief of staff of the Army of the Ardennes.
- He helped to defend Zurich in the French army's defeat at the First Battle of Zurich in 1799, and participated in the French victory over the combined Austrian and Russian forces later that summer.
- After the successes of the 1809 campaign on the Danube, he was part of the jubilant force entering the Habsburg capital of Vienna. In the 1812 campaign in Russia, he assumed command of the Westphalian army, appointed by Napoleon's brother JĂŠrĂ´me Bonaparte He died as the French Army took Moscow on 26 September 1812, of wounds suffered at the Battle of Borodino.
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Source: Located at Versailles; musÊe national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon joconde, acquired 1839. can be found here The Museum of France may claim a copy right on this image, however, the image was first published in 1880, according to its own catalog, and is therefore over 100 years old.
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| Alternative names | legal name: Robert Jacques François Faust Lefèvre | ||
| Description | French painter | ||
| Date of birth/death | 24 September 1755 | 3 October 1830 | |
| Location of birth/death | Bayeux | Paris | |
| Work location | Paris | ||
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Source: Located at Versailles; musÊe national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon joconde, acquired 1839. can be found here The Museum of France may claim a copy right on this image, however, the image was first published in 1880, according to its own catalog, and is therefore over 100 years old.
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