Jean Louis Romeuf

Jean Louis Romeuf was a Brigadier general of Napoleon; he was born in Lavoûte-Chilhac on September 27th, 1766, deceased with the Bataille of Moskowa on September 7th, 1812).

Aide-de-camp of Fayette in 1789, it was sent to Varennes to bring back to Paris the king Louis XVI. Taken with Fayette by the Austrians in August 1792, it remains in London (1793). Returned to France, it takes part in the campaigns of Egypt and the great businesses of Germany. It has two horses killed under him with the Bataille of Wagram. Baron of the Empire (May 3rd, 1810), brigadier general (1811), it dies carried by a ball with the battle of Moskowa.

Armorial bearings

of azure, with two swords of money, rises of gold, posed in saltire and confined of four reversed money shells; with the gold orle and the quarter of the military barons (of mouths to the high sword of money, assembled in stake).

Its portrait and its armorial bearings appear in " Armorial of the counts and barons of Ier Worsens originating High-Loire" , Historical Bulletin of the Academic Company of the Puy and the Haute-Loire, Volume LXIII (1987).

Jean Louis Romeuf

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