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La Roche Saint-André, Louis-Marie de

Louis-Marie de La Roche Saint-André

Born

23 March 1751

Died

23 December 1793

A former page of the king’s stables who had been admitted to the honours of the court, La Roche Saint-André was carried off by insurgent peasants in March 1793 and reached the royalist committee at Machecoul in his dressing gown. He led several hundred men in the first attack on Pornic, took the town easily, and could not prevent his men from getting drunk and being routed the same evening by a handful of republicans. Discredited and threatened, he fled to Noirmoutier, then rejoined the insurrection with forty men from Barbâtre and served thereafter as a staff officer of the army of the Centre under Royrand. He was killed at Savenay on 23 December 1793, in the last square that fought to let the women and children escape.

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