Nicolas Haxo

Born

7 June 1749

Died

20 March 1794

A notary’s son from the Vosges who served nine years in the ranks and was a legal official at Saint-Dié in 1789, Haxo raised a volunteer battalion in 1791 and served in the defence of Mainz. Sent to the Vendée in November 1793, he was given the task of hunting Charette in the Marais. He retook the island of Noirmoutier on 3 January 1794 under a safe-conduct he had personally guaranteed, which the representatives on mission overrode; the prisoners were shot over his protest, among them the wounded d’Elbée. Pursuing Charette with a column of about two thousand men, he was surrounded at Les Clouzeaux on 20 March 1794 and killed. Republican reports state that he shot himself to avoid capture; other accounts have him refusing to surrender and dying fighting.

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