Elzéar Auguste Cousin de Dommartin [SEP] place of death
Elzéar Auguste Cousin de Dommartin
Elzéar Auguste Cousin de Dommartin (26 May 1768 in Dommartin-le-Franc – 9 August 1799 in Rosetta) became a French general during the French Revolutionary Wars, fought in Italy under Napoleon Bonaparte, and commanded the artillery division of the Armée d'Orient during the French invasion of Egypt in 1798.
Life.
Dommartin received his first commission in 1785, serving as a captain of the artillery. Seriously wounded during the siege of Avignon, he was unable to take up his appointment as
the town from the British.
Death.
At Aix-en-Provence, he met the young officer Napoleon Bonaparte, introduced to him by Augustin Robespierre and Christophe Saliceti. Napoleon read aloud to them from his pamphlet "”Le souper de Beaucaire”" and the representatives of the Convention decided to have it printed at Valence at public expense. In a letter to the Committee of Public Safety, Gasparin and Saliceti recommended Bonaparte to replace the artillery commander Elzéar Auguste Cousin de Dommartin, who had been wounded in combat