Luc Siméon Auguste Dagobert

Luc Siméon Auguste Dagobert de Fontenille , born with Vault-in-To judge It close to Saint-Lo (Handle), the March 8th 1736, died in Puigcerda, the April 18th 1794, is a general of the French revolution.

Before the Revolution

Descendant of a noble family, Dagobert de Fontenille was major of the battalion of royal hunters of the Dauphiné in 1788. Second lieutenant in the Regiment of Touraine, it made the Guerre Seven Year old. Officer with the Royal-Italian, it makes the Guerre Seven Year old, then the Campagne of Corsica in 1769. He is on this occasion in direct contact with the family Bonaparte.

By its marriage, on August 8th 1780, with Jacquette Pailhoux de Cascastel, girl of a sovereign Adviser of the Roussillon, he becomes ironmaster and founds a company for the exploitation of the mines of the Corbières and the Razès under the jurisdiction of the Abbaye of Lagrasse with his/her cousin, Jean-Pierre François Duhamel, correspondent of the Academy of Science, and police chief of the king Louis XVI for the Mines and the forging mills.

Under the French revolution

In 1789, it adopts the Révolution with Louis-Philippe of Orleans, large-Master of the Great East of France.

He is colonel in May 1792, to the beginning of the war, he was sent to the Armée with the VAr where he gained several successes. Employed with the Armed with Italy under of Anselme and Biron, it was distinguished near Nice and with the Col from Negro. When Convention declares the war in Spain, on March 7th 1793, it passes to the Armée with the Eastern Pyrenees, under the general of Flers, and orders there a fortified camp from 8000 men.

War against Spain

Attacked the May 19th by the Spaniards whom it had pushed back, it is forced to give up this position; but the June 30th, it stops a column of six thousand men who walked on Perpignan. Named commander-in-chief of the central army of the Pyrenees, after the dismissal of Flers, it seizes Puycerda the August 29th 1793 and all the Spanish Cerdagne in the twenty-four hours space; then beats again the Spaniards, the September 4th 1793, with Montlouis, removing 14 parts of gun to them and taking again on them part of the Roussillon.

General-in-chief of the Armed with the Eastern Pyrenees after the dismissal of Barbantane, in September, it gives up this responsibility after the failure for Truillas, where it is made beat, the September 27th by the Ricardos general.

Dismissal and back in favor

Relieved for this failure, it goes to Paris to give an account of its control. He is imprisoned, then given in freedom and is returned to his station.

Arrived at Perpignan in March 1794, it can obtain to Dugommier only some battalions, instead of 12 000 men of infantry and 600 men of cavalry who were to be placed at his disposal. It made nevertheless an invasion of Catalogne, where it removed several positions and gained several victories. It seized Urgel the April 10th 1794, and died of disease with Puycerda, the April 18th 1794.

Unfortunately, he was assassinated on April 18th 1794 by Philadelphes of Narbonne of the marquis de Chefdebien, leader of the Royalist-Legitimists, who have thereafter, and throughout the XIXe century, fed the legends millenarists of the Large-Monarch and the Large-Pope, the survival of Louis XVII, until the XXe Century at the beginning of the German Occupation with the Marquis of Franquerie, near to Pie XII and stygmatized of Blain, Marie-Julie Jahenny.

-->La Convention decided that its name would be engraved on the high column of the Pantheon.

François-Gilles Dagobert, a cousin of the branch junior (and Breton), took again the torch in 1793 at the time of the attack of the catholic and royal Armée which failed in its attempt to reverse the Republic.

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