Charles d'Abancour
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Charles Xavier Joseph de Franque Ville d'Abancour (4 July 1758 – 9 September 1792)[1] was a French statesman, minister to Louis XVI.[2]
Biography
D'Abancourt was born in Douai, and was the nephew of Charles Alexandre de Calonne. He was Louis XVI's last minister of war (July 1792), and organised the defence of the Tuileries Palace during the 10th of August attack. Ordered by the Legislative Assembly to send away the Swiss Guards, he refused, and was arrested for treason to the nation and sent to Orléans to be tried.[3]
At the end of August the Assembly ordered Abancourt and the other prisoners at Orléans to be transferred to Paris with an escort commanded by Claude Fournier l'Americain. At Versailles, they learned of the September Massacres in Paris. Abancourt and his fellow-prisoners were murdered in cold blood in massacres on 9 September 1792 at Versailles, and Fournier was unjustly charged with complicity in the crime.[3][4]
References
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Chambers Biographical Dictionary, ISBN 0-550-18022-2, page 1
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Chisholm 1911.
- ↑ Weiss, Charles. (1841) Biographie universelle, ou Dictionnaire historique contenant la nécrologie des hommes célèbres de tous les pays... Tome Premier, Furne.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
| Political offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by | Secretary of State for War 23 July 1792 – 10 August 1792 |
Succeeded by Joseph Marie Servan de Gerbey |
- Articles needing translation from foreign-language Wikipedias
- Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference
- Use dmy dates from January 2012
- 1758 births
- 1792 deaths
- People from Douai
- French murder victims
- 18th-century French politicians
- Murdered politicians
- 1792 crimes
- People killed in the French Revolution
- People murdered in France
- French Ministers of Defence
- Burials at the Cemetery of Saint-Louis, Versailles
- 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica articles with no significant updates
