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André (or Antoine-Joseph-Marc''Nouvelle Biographie Générale'' p.830-831
.. published by MM. Firmin Didot, edited by M. le Dr Hoefer, Paris, 1855, vol 13) Désilles (11 March 1767,
.. published by MM. Firmin Didot, edited by M. le Dr Hoefer, Paris, 1855, vol 13) Désilles (11 March 1767,
Saint-Malo
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- 17 October 1790, Nancy) was a junior French army officer during the early stages of the French Revolution
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. In 1790 he was a lieutenant
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in the Régiment du Roi infanterie which together with the Mestre-de-Camp Cavalry and the Swiss Régiment de Lullin de Chateauvieux comprised the regular garrison of Nancy in north-eastern France. All three regiments mutinied against their officers in August of that year in what came to be known as the Nancy affair
The Nancy affair (french: Affaire de Nancy), commonly referred to in English as the Nancy Mutiny, was the crushing of a military mutiny in France on 31 August 1790, two years before the final overthrow of the French monarchy. The mutiny was of p ...
. On 31 August 1790, Désilles was mortally wounded whilst throwing himself in front of a cannon in a vain hope of stopping the outbreak of fighting between the mutineers and troops sent to restore order under General de Bouillé. Nancy's Porte Désilles
The porte Désilles (or mémorial Désilles) is a memorial gate in the French city of Nancy. It is considered to be the oldest War memorial in France.
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is named after him.
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