Jean-Marie Defrance [SEP] conflict
Jean-Marie Defrance
Jean-Marie Defrance (1771–1855) was a French General of the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He was also a member of the Council of Five Hundred (the lower house of the legislative branch of the French government under The Directory), and a teacher at the military school of Rebais, Champagne.
Defrance had an extensive and successful military career in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. After the First Battle of Zurich, he refused a battlefield promotion to brigadier general
1829. He died in 1855.
Family.
Jean-Marie Defrance was born on 21 September 1771 at Vassy, in the Champagne province and died 6 July 1855. On his mother's side, he was the grandson of the French writer Pierre Chompré (16981760); his father, Jean-Claude Defrance, was the medical doctor at the Royal Military School of Rebais, in Champagne. Jean-Marie Defrance married the daughter of the richest jeweler in Paris, by the name Foncier.
Military career.