Jean-François Mill

Origin

Wire of a grocer, raises Jésuites, Jean-François Moulin engages in 1768 in the army where there remain only seven months. He enters then to the Ponts and Chaussées like Géographe.

Under the Revolution

In 1789, it belongs to the Parisian National guard, then reinstates the army as major of the infantry in 1793. It is sent to fight the Vendéens in the Vendée. His/her young brother, Jean-Baptiste Moulin, which also fights against them, prefers to commit suicide rather than to fall between their hands.

Named Brigadier general in September 1793, then major general in November 1793, it takes part in the battles of Mans and captures 1.200 Vendean which was released little from time afterwards. The libératon of these prisoners caused the anger of Jean-Baptiste Carrier which shut down the Moulin general. Carrier wrote at the end Virée of Galerne:
It has there only very few brigands who could pass the Loire. It in have not escaped only one without the orders of the Moulin general who warned himself to give passports to authorize them to return on their premises. I come to make leave the order to stop this really guilty general The Moulin general is finally released in 1794.

He is promoted general-in-chief of the Armée with the Alps in December 1794. He is then named, for health reasons, governor of Lyon in October 1795, then of Strasbourg in 1796. In 1797, it becomes ordering the 17th military division stationed with Paris. In 1798, it fights the Chouans, then the risen Belgian peasants, with the head of the Armée with England.

Under the Directory

He is elected Directeur, at the time of the rehandling” of the 30 meadow year VII (June 18th 1799), to replace Louis Révellière-Lépeaux, constrained with the resignation. Its opposition to the Coup d'etat of the 18 brumaire year VIII (November 9th 1799) is worth to him to be placed some time under good guard with the Palais of Luxembourg. He proposed the arrest of the Bonaparte general to the 18 brumaire, and wanted to make it shoot. Decree itself, it managed to escape.

Under the First Empire

He is successively governor of Antwerp, of Mainz, Mézières and Augsburg. Returned to France in March 1810, he dies shortly after. He had been named baron d' Empire in 1809.

“ Mill, major general, had not made the war; it left the French Guards, and had received its advance in the army of the interior. It was a patriotic, hot and right man. ” (Napoleon i, etc)

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