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STOFFLET, JEAN NICOLAS (1751-1796)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 939 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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STOFFLET, See also:JEAN See also:NICOLAS (1751-1796) , Vendean See also:general, was See also:born at See also:Luneville, the son of a See also:miller. See also:Long a private soldier in a Swiss See also:regiment in See also:France, and afterward' See also:game-keeper to the See also:comte de See also:Colbert-Maulevrier, he joined the Vendeans when they See also:rose against the Revolution to defend their religious and royalist principles. During the See also:war in La See also:Vendee he served first under Gigot d'Elbee, fought at Fontenay, See also:Cholet and See also:Saumur, and distinguished himself at the battles of Beaupreau, See also:Laval and Antrain. He was appointed See also:major-general of the royalist See also:army, and in 1794 succeeded La Rochejaquelein as See also:commander-in-See also:chief. But his quarrels with another Vendean See also:leader, F. A. Charette, and the reverses sustained by the Vendean arms, led him to give in his submission and to accept the terms of the treaty of La Jaunaie (May 2, 1795). He, however, soon violated this treaty, and at the instigation of royalist agents took arms in See also:December 1795 on behalf of the See also:count of See also:Provence (the future See also:Louis XVIII.), from whom he had received the See also:rank of marechal-de-See also:camp. This last See also:attempt of Stofflet's failed completely. He was taken prisoner by the republicans, condemned to See also:death by a military See also:commission, and shot at See also:Angers on the 23rd of See also:February 1796. See General d'Andigne, Memoires, edited by E. Eire (1900—1901) ; C.

Loyer, " Cholet sous la domination de Stof(let," in L'See also:

Anjou historique, vol. iii. (1902-1903).

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