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Carteaux Jean Baptiste François
(1751—1813)

An artist (not a very good one) who because a general. He was transferred from a command in the Alps to defeat the Provençal rebels at Orange, July 16, 1793. He occupied Marseilles August 25, 1793 and began the seige of English-occupied Toulon (though he was arrested and replaced by General Dugommier). He escaped death in the Terror and was reinstated to commands in the Northwest. Bonaparte appointed him Administrator of the National Lottery.

Chad, 1999, Louis XVI