Jean-Marie Valhubert

Jean-Marie Melon Roger , more known under the name of Jean-Marie Valhubert or the general Valhubert , born the October 22nd 1764 with Avranches (Handle), dead the December 3rd 1805, was a soldier French.

He entered, before to have reached his twentieth year, the Régiment of Rohan-Soubise. At the time of the French revolution, it was turned over in its family.

In 1791, the 1^er battalion of the English Channel chooses it for chief the October 22nd. It led this battalion to the Armée with the North, with which it made the campaigns of 1792 with 1793.

This senior officer pointed out himself to Lille, with Antwerp, Lawfeld; was made prisoner with the Quesnoy the September 13rd 1793, and was led in Hungary. Exchanged at the beginning of year IV, it was used for the army of the interior until the suppression of this weapon, and remained in garrison with Paris, of the month of vendémiaire year V to the 30 germinal year VII, with the rank of chief of the 28^e half-brigade of battle, which it had obtained the 26 fructidor year V.

Envoy then in the Were worth, it was distinguished, the 23 meadow one, in the Vallée of Vispa, where it supported an unequal combat.

Thermidor 28, it removed the Simplon with the enemy.

During the countryside of year VIII, it gave new evidence of a not very common value. The 17 meadow one, it passes the Po in a boat and gives the dash to the army. 19, in front of Broni, with the head of 50 men, it makes low put the weapons at 3.000 Austrians; a more body having removed its prisoners to him, it springs with its horse in the middle of the enemy, seizes the commander with the collet, district promises to him, and all goes.

Montebello, it resists with its 28^e half-brigade all the Austrian cavalry.

Wounded of a shot, the 25, with Marengo, it remains at its station and does not cease ordering throughout action.

With the Passage of Mincio, the 4 nivôse year IX, a ball reverses it and deprives it of the voice. One presses it to withdraw oneself, it refuses, is made give to horse and continues to fight.

By decree of the 28 fructidor, the First Consul had made a many distribution of weapons of honor, and Valhubert had been forgotten. All the officers of the 28^e met, the 15 vendémiaire year XI, to address to the Consul a complaint on this subject, and a decree of the 4 pluviôse, pointing out all the feats of arms of this chief of brigade, decreed finally a saber to him of honor

The minister sent the 19 ventôse, with the board of directors of the body, the patent of honor of Valhubert

The following year, the first Consul named it, the 11 fructidor, Brigadier general, and employed it with the Camp of Saint-Omer.

The 19 frimaire year XII, it did it member of the Legion-D' Honor, and ordering of a Nature the 25 meadow following.

Attached in year XIV to the 4^e division of the 4^e body of the large army, ordered by Suchet, there fought with the Bataille of Austerlitz the 11 frimaire, and was the thigh crashed to pieces by a glare of shell. Fallen, and in impossibility of being raised, of the soldiers want to transport it to the ambulance. He died of his wounds five days after this last battle, where it had remained at his station with the crashed to pieces thigh (1805). His/her comrades raised to him a monument in the plains of the Moravie. The Emperor achieves the last wishes of the deceased one. It charged with family with this general, ordered that monument would be high with place even where it had be wounded, that its name was given to the place of Paris which is between the Botanical garden and the Pont of Austerlitz, and that one érigât there his marble statue. Louis XVIII made gift of the statue at his birthplace.

Its name is registered on the east coast of the Triumphal arch of the Star, and on bronze the tables of the Palais of Versailles.

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