Jean-Baptiste de Lavalette, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French general
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Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France
About Jean-Baptiste de Lavalette
- Not to be confused with Jean-Baptiste de La Valette, captain in the Régiment de Normandie, killed in 1674 at the siege of Grave. Jean-Baptiste de Lavalette or Louis Jean-Baptiste de Lavalette or Louis Jean-Baptiste de Thomas de la Valette, Count of la Valette, was a former noble turned Robespierrist. He was elected lieutenant colonel commanding the Lombards battalion in September 1792.
- He served as commanding officer, leader of popular society, military governor, and lieutenant colonel. He was guillotined the 10 Thermidor Year II (28 July 1794) in the wake of Thermidorian Reaction, as a Hanriot assistant and a Robespierrist,
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