Jacques Alexandre Romeuf

Jacques Alexandre Romeuf, born in Lavoûte-Chilhac (Haute-Loire) the 11/19/1772, deceased in Paris the 4/26/1845 Fayette place Jacques Alexandre Romeuf, seventeen years old like aide-de-camp to the national guard. In 1791, it is promoted lieutenant. It is taken by the Austrians with Fayette in August 1792. In 1793, with his Jean-Louis brother, it is in London.

Under the Directory

Of return in France in 1797, it took again its service in the army. Aide-de-camp of the lieutenant-general Dumas (the father of Alexandre), adjudant-general in 1810, he becomes brigadier general on the battle field of Moskowa (1812) while a ball carries his/her Jean-Louis brother.

Rejoined with the Restoration, it orders successively the battalions of the Haute-Loire, of the Loire, of the Rhone, Allier and of the Gold Coast.

Officer of the Legion of Honor. Knight of Saint-Louis

Sources

French revolution of Jules Michelet
Dictionary biographical of the Haute-Loire, Gaston Joubert, 2004.
Ulysses Rouchon, " A friend of Lafayette, the Knight of Colombe" in the friendships Foréziennes and Vellaves, 1923 and 1924.

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