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Jean François Cornu de La Poype
Jean François Cornu de La Poype (31 May 1758 – 27 January 1851) was a French military leader. He was born in Lyon, to a noble, military family.
French Revolutionary Wars.
Under the ancien regime he joined the army at a young age and received the rank of brigadier before the French Revolution in 1789. He was named a major general on 15 May 1793. A Revolutionary partisan, he married the daughter of famous convention member Louis-Marie Stanislas Fréron
("général de division")
- Pierre Belon Lapisse baron de Sainte-Hélène ("général de division")
- Jean-Baptiste Antoine Laplanche ("général de brigade")
- Claude Joseph de Laplanche-Morthières ("général de brigade")
- Jean Grégoire Barthélemy Rouger de Laplane ("général de division")
- Jean François Cornu de La Poype ("général de division")
- Pierre Laprun ("général de division")
- Toussaint Joseph de Lardemelle