Desaix de Veygoux, Louis-Charles-Antoine

Desaix de Veygoux, Louis-Charles-Antoine

▪ French military hero
also called  Chevalier (knight) de Veygoux 
born Aug. 17, 1768, near Riom, France
died June 14, 1800, Marengo [Italy]

      French military hero who led forces in the German, Egyptian, and Italian campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars (from 1792).

      The son of Gilbert-Antoine Desaix, Seigneur de Veygoux, he was known at first as the Chevalier de Veygoux. A regular officer, he was compromised and imprisoned following Louis XVI's deposition, but he had the remarkable good fortune in 1793–94 of being retained and promoted to general by the deputies with the Army of the Rhine, in spite of orders from revolutionary Paris. He demonstrated his worth in Germany in battles at Strasbourg (1793), Mainz (1794), Mannheim (1795), and Bavaria (1796) and in the retreat through the Black Forest. After being wounded at the passage of the Rhine River in 1797, he went to Italy to see Napoleon (Napoleon I) and in his Journal de voyage (ed. by A. Chuquet, 1907) admirably described the army and its chiefs. Desaix led a division to Egypt in 1798, and after the Battle of the Pyramids he occupied upper Egypt against tough opposition from the Mamlūk Murad Bey.

      Napoleon did not take Desaix back to France but called for him when he was evacuating Egypt. Desaix was captured at sea and could not reach Napoleon until June 11, 1800, in Piedmont. Sent at once with two divisions toward Genoa, he had not gone far (because of floods) when he was called to the battlefield of Marengo (June 14). He was beginning the counterattack, which turned the battle to victory, when he was shot through the heart.

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