Pierre François de Rougé

Pierre Francois, marquis de Rougé , Baron de Coëtmen, lord of the Suspension brace, Tremblay, etc (1702 - 1761)

Biography

French general, wire of Pierre III, marquis de Rougé and of Jeanne Prézeau of Guilletière. Pierre-François de Rougé took share with the Siège of Kehl in 1733 and with that of Philippsburg in 1734. He was named colonel during the War of succession of Austria.

During the War Seven Year old, it was made prisoner with Rossbach (1757), then exchanged. It also took part in the battles of Corbach and Kassel against the Prussian armies. He became then governor of Givet and Charlemont, where was built one century later the Red Caserne, longer barracks of France in its time, destroyed by the German bombardments in 1916.

The September 7th 1759, the marquis of Rougé signed a treaty known later under the name of “Convention of Brandebourg”. This agreement, concluded with the representative from the Prussian armies, the major baron Buddenbrock, stipulated that the military hospitals and lazarets as well as the medical personnel would not be regarded as combat units. This act was considered one century later by Henri Dunant, founder of the Red Cross, as being the first treaty “of the Red Cross”, when he asked funds the Emperor Napoleon III.

The marquis of Rougé was wounded mortally, like his cousin the Duke of Croÿ-Harbor (and by the same ball) at the time of the Bataille of Vellinghausen (Fillinghausen) in Westphalia in 1761.

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