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December 1778, his leg was broken by a musket ball. Returning home to civilian life he took over the family business. On 11 February 1782 he married Marie Françoise Collardeau (b. 1760) of a well-to-do family. The couple had five children, Marie Thérèse, Charles François, Charles Florent, Pierre
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Prussians reported only 167 casualties.
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65:1795-02-11
45:1758-03-14
503:captured
383:Pirmasens
309:Auxerrois
260:Auxerrois
223:Pirmasens
123:1791–1795
114:1776–1778
1102:(1998).
1080:(2011).
1023:10 March
808:(2011).
733:(1998).
473:Flanders
417:Ardennes
289:Ardennes
99:Infantry
94:Service/
74:, France
53:, France
1177:Source:
652:MOREAUX
495:Cologne
465:Koblenz
357:In the
317:colonel
301:Émigrés
63: (
43: (
1110:
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816:
741:
606:French
587:Roeser
583:Longwy
487:Aachen
421:Loiret
338:Vosges
303:under
255:Rocroi
96:branch
89:France
51:Rocroi
677:Notes
579:Arlon
517:Rhine
509:Worms
483:Liège
461:Trier
1131:2014
1108:ISBN
1086:ISBN
1070:2014
1051:2014
1025:2013
977:2014
909:2014
885:Orbe
881:Orne
852:2014
814:ISBN
771:2014
739:ISBN
717:2014
644:Merl
507:and
493:and
491:Bonn
485:and
429:Orne
415:and
128:Rank
58:Died
38:Born
413:Lot
407:'s
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