Louis Antoine Vimeux

Born

13 August 1737

Died

23 June 1814

An Amiens man who enlisted as a private in 1753 and needed thirty-eight years to reach captain, Vimeux commanded the town of Mainz through the siege of 1793 and went west with its garrison, serving under Kléber at Torfou and Cholet. He was given the district of Cholet in February 1794 with about eleven hundred men, half of them unarmed, and succeeded Turreau in the interim command of the Army of the West that May. His significance lies in the reversal of policy that followed: in August 1794 he dismissed his subordinate Huché for the massacres at Luçon, and he is grouped with Alexandre Dumas among the commanders who pressed for a less brutal course. He was afterwards governor of Luxembourg for twelve years and died at Metz in 1814.

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