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Place of Birth: Puyréaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
About Jean Léchelle
- Jean Léchelle or Jean L'Échelle (2 April 1760 – 11 November 1793) briefly commanded a French army during the French Revolutionary Wars.
- Having served in the French Royal Army as a youth, the outbreak of the French Revolution found him employed as a fencing master.
- He was elected to lead a volunteer National Guard battalion which fought at Valmy and Jemappes in 1792.
- He earned promotion to general officer after distinguishing himself at the Siege of Valenciennes and saving a representative from an angry mob.
- He won such favor with the politicians and the war office that he was rapidly catapulted into command of an army in the War in the Vendée.
- After the capable battalion leader demonstrated his total unfitness for the post of army commander, he was just as quickly arrested and thrown into prison where he died, a probable suicide.
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