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Bacharetie de Beaupuy, Armand Michel

Armand Michel Bacharetie de Beaupuy

Born

14 July 1755

Died

19 October 1796

A Périgord nobleman who enlisted as a common soldier at fifteen and was a captain in 1791, Beaupuy was stationed at Blois in 1792, where he formed a friendship with William Wordsworth and, as the one convinced republican among the officers there, did much to turn the young poet towards the Revolution. He served at Mainz, and after the capitulation went with the garrison to the Vendée, where he was wounded in the chest at Entrammes. Confirmed general of division in 1795, he passed to the Army of the Rhine and Moselle and was killed by a cannonball at Emmendingen on 19 October 1796 while covering Moreau’s retreat. Wordsworth, who had left France in 1792 and lost touch, believed to the end that he had died in the Vendée.

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