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BOUCHOTTE, See also:JEAN See also:BAPTISTE See also:NOEL (1754–1840) , See also:French See also:minister, was See also:born at See also:Metz on the 25th of See also:December 1754. At the outbreak of the Revolution he was a See also:captain of See also:cavalry, and his zeal led to his being made See also:colonel and given the command at See also:Cambrai. When See also:Dumouriez delivered up to the Austrians the minister of See also:war, the See also:marquis de See also:Beurnonville, in See also:April 1793, Bouchotte, who had bravely defended Cambrai, was called by the See also:Convention to be minister of war, where he remained until the 31st of See also:March 1794. The predominant rale of the See also:Committee of Public Safety during that See also:period did not leave much See also:scope for the new minister, yet he rendered some services in the organization of the republican armies, and See also:chose his See also:officers with insight, among them Kleber, See also:Massena, See also:Moreau and See also:Bonaparte. During the Thermidorian reaction, in spite of his incontestable honesty, he was accused by the See also:anti-revolutionists. He was tried by the tribunal of the See also:Eure-et-See also:Loire and acquitted. Then he withdrew from politics, and lived in retirement until his See also:death on the 8th of See also:June 1840.

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