Pierre Quétineau

Born

25 August 1756

Died

17 March 1794

A tenant farmer who had served nine years as a private soldier and was elected captain of grenadiers in 1791, Quétineau was made general of brigade in March 1793 and given a command against the insurrection. Beaten at Les Aubiers in April, he fell back on Thouars, where on 5 May he was overwhelmed by a Vendéan army several times his strength and capitulated. He and his men were released on parole not to serve again; offered a command in the royalist army, he refused it and tried to rejoin the Republic. Arrested instead on suspicion of treason, he was found in prison at Saumur when the Vendéans took the town in June and again declined to join them. He was condemned in Paris and guillotined on 17 March 1794.

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