Louis Charles de Flers

LouisCharles de La MotteAngo, vicomte de Flers joined the French Royal army and rose in rank to become a general officer in the French Revolutionary Wars. After serving in the Austrian Netherlands, he was appointed to command the Army of the Eastern Pyrenees. His army suffered several defeats in May and June 1793, but he rallied his troops to win a defensive victory at the Battle of Perpignan in July. The allpowerful Representativesonmission arrested him in August 1793 for a minor setback and sent him to Paris under arrest. The Committee of Public Safety executed him by guillotine on trumped up charges in the last days of the Reign of Terror. De Flers is one of the names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe.

De Flers was born into a noble family in Paris onJune 1754. His parents were Ange Hyacinthe Ango de la MotteAngo, comte de Flers and Marie Madeleine Charlotte de Chertemps de Seuil, baroness de Reaux . De Flers enlisted in a cavalry regiment at a very early age. He embraced the French Revolution and became a marechal de camp in 1791. At the direction of General Charles Francois Dumouriez, de Flers established the camp of Maulde in 1792 and was badly wounded defending it. After recovering, he joined Dumouriezs invasion of Belgium as a division commander in 1792.

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