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on 2 February 1772 and then defended it against attempts to re-take it. The capture was the subject of a pamphlet and made Choisy comment "I give you all my glory, my dear
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Saillans played a major part in the third 'camp de Jalès', which aimed to raise almost one-quarter of France in rebellion, namely the south-east, which from
Marseille onwards was very royalist and had a pronounced Catholicism due to its persecution of Protestants. La Rouërie in the west was already
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as lieutenant-colonel of the same battalion. He and most of the officers in the
Perpignan garrison were opposed to the Revolution. On the night of 6–7 December 1791 he and a hundred other officers chose general Chollet, commander of the Perpignan garrison, to head a royalist conspiracy, but Chollet
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and cut down with sabres in place de la Grave without trial - a cross still marks the site. His body was buried in a common grave at Les Vans, whilst a man from
Largentière called La Paille took Saillans' head back to Largentière on a pike - it was buried there in a common grave on the river bank,
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dressed as a peasant, heading for Elze (now in the commune of Malons), where he stayed a night in a partisan's house. He was accompanied by an old man called Nadal, his valet and two priests, abbé Pradon, parish priest of Bannes and abbé Boissin, parish priest of Puech. At 7 am on 12 July the five
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Saillans had not seen his 47-year-old wife Françoise since he set off on his Ardéche expedition - she died later at Tour Gaffey in
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Champagne and was only in Herbigny from 1660 to 1770. His mother's family, the de Beuvrys, were linked to the de Parthenays, Hénin-Liétard, the princes de Chimay and through them the Beauvau-Craon, ducs d'Arenberg, princes de Ligne. The families' origins were validated by proofs of nobility
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in Paris, where he was a protégé of the king's daughters. He joined the army aged sixteen on 15 February 1757, as a volunteer in the
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Saillans found himself master of the plain and of the surrounding parishes, with 1200 men under his command. However, this provoked the nearby Republican troops to pursue Saillans and his force and the revolt was suppressed by troops from
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Year of grace 1741, 30 October, I, Jean Cousin, priest, parish priest of
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After two initial committees were beaten, Claude Allier, friend of the Comité de Jalès, stated that more than 20,000 men were ready to fight for the royalist cause in Vivarais and were only awaiting the appointment of a man capable of leading them. The princes thus appointed the Irishman
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The king has come, Monsieur, to the decision that he is to grant the chevalier de Saillans (who has the honour of being the protégé of the king's daughters) a place as a student at the ancient school of the royal artillery at La Fère. You are to receive him as such when he presents this
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François-Louis. The godfather milord François-Louis de Canelle, lord of part of Herbigny, residing there, sous-brigadier in the Gardes du Corps du Roy; and the godmother Madame Marie-Claire du Guet, wife of milord de Bournonville, with us undersigned.
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as its supreme commander, with Saillans as his second in command. However, Conway was not keen on the expedition and delayed his journey to France, hoping he would be removed from office - Saillans thus effectively took over as its
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where it was rediscovered in 1894 whilst digging the foundations for a house and taken to the village church, where the skull can still be seen atop a capital.
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