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Poirier de Beauvais, Bertrand

Bertrand Poirier de Beauvais

Born

19 November 1750

Died

3 April 1826

A councillor of the king whose father was guillotined for corresponding with Malesherbes, Poirier de Beauvais joined the Catholic and Royal Army at Saumur in June 1793 and served as an artillery officer under Marigny. He opposed the crossing of the Loire but followed the army, was conspicuous at the siege of Granville and directed the attack on Angers. He was made commanding general of the Vendéan artillery in June 1794, after Marigny’s condemnation, at whose trial he had voted against the sentence. He refused to sign at La Jaunaye and at La Mabilais, and left for England when Stofflet finally submitted. There he wrote the memoirs, published in full only in 1893, which are the fullest continuous narrative of the war by a surviving senior commander. He returned in 1800 and died in 1826.

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