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Rank
  
Major General

Name
  
Jean-Nicolas Stofflet


Service/branch
  
Swiss Guard

Allegiance
  
Early modern France

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Died
  
February 23, 1796, Angers, France

Similar People
  
Jacques Cathelineau, Henri de la Rochejaquelein, Francois de Charette, Charles de Bonchamps, Louis Marie Turreau

Jean-Nicolas Stofflet (3 February 1751 – 25 February 1796) was a French leader of the Revolt in the Vendée against the First French Republic.

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Born in Bathelémont-lès-Bauzemont (Meurthe-et-Moselle), the son of a miller, he was for long a private in the Swiss Guard, and afterwards gamekeeper to the comte de Colbert-Maulévrier, he joined the Vendéans when they rose against the Revolution to defend Roman Catholicism and Royalist principles. During the war in Vendée, he served first under Maurice-Louis-Joseph Gigot d'Elbée, and fought at Fontenay-le-Comte, Cholet and Saumur, and distinguished himself at the battles of Beaupréau, Laval and Antrain.

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He was appointed major-general of the Royalist army, and in 1794 succeeded Henri de la Rochejaquelein as commander-in-chief of the Catholic and Royal Army. Stofflet established his headquarters in the Forest of Vezins. But his quarrels with another Vendéan leader, François de Charette, and the defeats sustained by the Vendéan troops, led him to give in his submission and to accept the terms of the Treaty of La Jaunaye with the National Convention (2 May 1795).

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He, however, soon violated this treaty, and at the instigation of Royalist agents took arms in December of the same year or behalf of the Count of Provence, from whom he had received the rank of maréchal-de-camp. This last action of Stofflet's failed completely. He was taken prisoner by the Republic, sentenced to death by a military commission, and shot at Angers.

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References

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