Henri Forestier

Died

14 September 1806

Barely eighteen when the war began, and intended for medicine before his brother, a priest, refused the oath and went into hiding, Forestier became secretary of the staff of the Anjou army and then head of its cavalry after Saumur, a command he ceded in name to the prince de Talmont while continuing to exercise it. He led the vanguard through the march into Normandy, and afterwards served under Puisaye in Brittany. Returning as Stofflet’s second, he negotiated the treaties of 1795 for him and succeeded to the command of the Anjou army after his death. He conspired for the Bourbons from England and Spain thereafter, was condemned to death in his absence at Nantes, and died in London in September 1806.

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