Jean-Pierre Travot

Born

7 January 1767

Died

7 January 1836

A volunteer of the Jura who went through the siege of Mainz and passed with its garrison to the Vendée, Travot fought at Torfou and Cholet and then spent the following years in the pursuit of Charette under Hoche. His column ran the Vendéan general to earth at La Chabotterie on 23 March 1796, and he received him wounded; he was promoted general of brigade eight days later and given the command of the department. He acquired an unusual local reputation for moderation towards the defeated. Having rallied to Napoleon in the Hundred Days and commanded against the royalist rising in the west, he was condemned to death in 1816 and reprieved. His mind gave way in prison, and he died in a private asylum on his sixty-ninth birthday in 1836.

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