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Ronsin, Charles Philippe

Charles Philippe Ronsin

Born

1 December 1751

Died

24 March 1794

A cooper’s son from Soissons who lived as a playwright and tutor before the Revolution and was a Cordeliers orator rather than a soldier, Ronsin was appointed deputy to the war minister Bouchotte in April 1793 and promoted from captain to general within three months. Sent west, his role was denunciatory rather than operational: he supported Rossignol against Biron and Westermann, and his reports procured the dismissal of Canclaux and Aubert du Bayet as aristocratic generals responsible for the failures. In September 1793 he was made commander of the Parisian revolutionary army, and took a detachment of it to Lyon during the repression there. Arrested in December and released in February through a Cordeliers campaign, he was taken again in March 1794 and guillotined with the Hébertists on the 24th.

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