Jean Léchelle French Military
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Details
| Birthday |
2nd April, 1760
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| Birthplace |
Puyréaux, France
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| Died |
11th November, 1793
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| Place of Death |
Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, France
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| Zodiac Sign |
Aries
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| Nationality |
French
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| Occupation |
Military
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Jean Léchelle or Jean L'Échelle (2 April 1760 – 11 November 1793) briefly commanded a French army during the French Revolutionary Wars. Having served in the French Royal Army as a youth, the outbreak of the French Revolution found him employed as a fencing master. He was elected to lead a volunteer National Guard battalion which fought at Valmy and Jemappes in 1792. He earned promotion to general officer after distinguishing himself at the Siege of Valenciennes and saving a representative from an angry mob. He won such favor with the politicians and the war office that he was rapidly catapulted into command of an army in the War in the Vendée. After the capable battalion leader demonstrated his total unfitness for the post of army commander, he was just as quickly arrested and thrown into prison where he died, a probable suicide.
