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Edme Étienne Borne Desfourneaux
Edme Étienne Borne Desfourneaux (22 April 1767 in Vézelay – 22 February 1849 in Paris) was a French Army General and Governor of Guadalope.
Life.
Desfourneaux was born in Vézelay and joined the French Army of the Kingdom of France as sergeant in 1789 with the Régiment de Conti during the French Revolution. He later rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the 48th Infantry Regiment in Saint-Domingue in 1792. From 1798 to 1799 he served as Governor of Guadeloupe.
He was
Deschamps de la Varenne ("général de brigade")
- Jacques Ollivier Desclozeaux ("général de brigade")
- Jean-François Louis Picault Desdorides ("général de brigade")
- Jacques Philippe Desemery ("général de brigade")
- Nicolas Joseph Desenfans ("général de brigade")
- Edme Étienne Borne Desfourneaux ("général de division")
- Antoine Grange ("général de brigade")
- François-Ganivet Desgraviers-Berthelot ("général de brigade"