Jacques Anne Joseph Prestre de Vauban

Old Mode

It entered, in 1770 as second lieutenant in the dragons of Rochefoucauld and passed soon in the Régiment of Chartres as captain, then in the Gendarmerie of Lunéville, where he was second lieutenant. It followed then Rochambeau in America like its aide-de-camp and was sent in France, in 1782, with dispatches of this general. He then became colonel as a second of the Régiment of Agenors, and little time afterwards, the duke of Orleans, from which he was chamberlain, made appoint it colonel of the regiment of infantry of his name and knight of Saint-Louis the June 13rd 1784.

French revolution

At the time of the departure of Louis XVI for Varennes, the count de Vauban emigrated with most of the officers of this body, and it went to Ath, then with Coblentz, where the count d' Artois named it its aide-de-camp It was in this quality that it made the countryside of 1792.

The following year, it accompanied this prince in Russia, where it was pilot beautiful reception which made him the empress Catherine II of Russia. It went then in England and embarked in spring of 1795, with the forwarding intended for the coasts of Brittany. Charged with ordering, under Mr. of Puysaye, a body of Chouans which was to operate on the backs of the republican army, he was prevented by the troops of Hoche, and, misled by false signals, he saw himself obliged to retrogress, at the time of the unloading of Quiberon, where he thought of perishing. He fulfills then various missions in the the Vendée and with the island of Yeu, near the count d' Artois. Returned with London, he hastened to turn over to Russia; but, arrived in this region at the time of died of Catherine, he was there, like the majority of the French, victim of the fickleness of Paul Ier and soon obliged to move away. He returned then to France and remained some time with Paris, with the assent of the police force, which stopped it nevertheless in 1806 and retained it a long time captive with the Temple.

His papers having been seized, one discovered there the manuscript of his historical Mémoires to be used for the history of the Guerre of the Vendée . He hastened to publish these Mémoires under the name of the count, which there showed, with much bitterness, the majority of his comrades in arms to Quiberon and even his former Masters. It was rather generally believed whereas this publication was not that an operation from there imperial police force to discredit the cause of the Bourbons. However the book was reproduced with much assignment after the return of these princes in and it appeared one second edition of it during the Hundred Days. As for Instigator, it was freed little time after the publication of the first edition and was withdrawn in Charolais, where part of its goods was returned to him. He still lived this region at the time of the return of the Bourbons. He then believed to have to come to Paris to present to it his homages to the princes whom he had served a long time; but, not having been able to be allowed with this honor, it turned over from there sick in its country and died there the April 20th 1816.

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