Jean-Michel Beysser

Jean-Michel Beysser , born with Ribeauvillé (Haut-Rhin) the November 4th 1753, guillotine with Paris the April 13rd 1794 (24 germinal year II) was general in the French Army.

Before the Revolution

He begins his career as a dragon in the Régiment of Lorraine of 1769 with 1778. He will be then employed in the army of Brittany of 1778 with 1781, seems he as army surgeon.

He is used in the Swiss regiment as Moron, with the orders of the Compagnie of the Indies Dutchwomen as army surgeon, captain of the Dutch regiment, he is of return in France in 1788.

Under the Revolution

In July 1789, it is named major of the national dragons in Lorient.

Major of the national dragons with Lorient in July 1789, lieutenant-colonel in 1790, become again simple captain of the national police of the Morbihan in 1791, it knows, thanks to the war, a rapid promotion:

February 10th 1793, supernumerary adjudant-general lieutenant-colonel and without salary with the army of the Coasts.
March 7th 1793, chief of brigade to the 21e hunters with horse.
May 6th 1793, adjudant-general chief of brigade to the army of Coast-of-Brest
June 20th 1793, brigadier general.

It is at the latter station that it pushes back the Vendean ones at the end of June 1793. Signatory of federalistic proclamation of the July 5th 1793, it lives himself in the obligation to find refuge with Lorient. The August 2nd 1793, it was presented in front of the convention, this one reinstated it in the army with the same rank. The September 17th 1793, it east demolishes by the Vendean ones with Montaigu. The government which had already suspicions on him issues its arrest. The October 2nd 1793, it is imprisoned with the Prison of the Abbey. It appears before the revolutionary Tribunal of Paris which condemns it to dead the 4 germinal An II (March 24th 1794), like accomplice of Jacques-Rene Hébert, Charles Philippe Ronsin, François - Nicolas Vincent, Mazuel, Antoine-François Momoro, already struck sword of the law, to dissolve the national representation and to give a tyrant to the State. It will be guillotine at the same time as Arthur de Dillon, Pierre-Gaspard Chaumette, Jean-Baptiste Gobel and Lucile Desmoulins, Marie Marguerite Francoise Hébert the 24 germinal An II (April 13rd 1794).

Internal bond

Lawsuit of Jacques Rene Hébert and Hébertistes

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