Anton Carl Ludwig von Tabouillot Anton Carl Ludwig von Tabouillot (born 26 December 1775 in

Verdun Verdun (, , , ; official name before 1970 ''Verdun-sur-Meuse'') is a large city in the Meuse department in Grand Est, northeastern France. It is an arrondissement of the department. Verdun is the biggest city in Meuse, although the capital ...

, died 17 February 1813 in

Essen Essen (; Latin: ''Assindia'') is the central and, after Dortmund, second-largest city of the Ruhr, the largest urban area in Germany. Its population of makes it the fourth-largest city of North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne, Düsseldorf and D ...

), né Antoine Charles Louis de Tabouillot, was a French officer, nobleman and counter-revolutionary, who later became a politician in the French satellite state, the

Grand Duchy of Berg The Grand Duchy of Berg (german: Großherzogtum Berg), also known as the Grand Duchy of Berg and Cleves, was a territorial grand duchy established in 1806 by Emperor Napoleon after his victory at the Battle of Austerlitz (1805) on territories bet ...

, where he served as Mayor of

under French rule during the

Napoleonic Wars The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of major global conflicts pitting the French Empire and its allies, led by Napoleon I, against a fluctuating array of European states formed into various coalitions. It produced a period of Fren ...

from 1811 to 1813.

Career

He was a member of a French noble family and was the son of the ''conseiller du roi'', prosecutor and police president of

Louis François de Tabouillot (1733–1806) and Anne de Grandfèbre (1747–1794). Before and during the

French Revolution The French Revolution ( ) was a period of radical political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the formation of the French Consulate in November 1799. Many of its ideas are considere ...

he was an officer of the French King's personal bodyguard Garde du Corps at

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and later of the royalist counter-revolutionary Armée des Princes. He fled from France during the

Reign of Terror The Reign of Terror (french: link=no, la Terreur) was a period of the French Revolution when, following the creation of the First Republic, a series of massacres and numerous public executions took place in response to revolutionary fervour, ...

in 1793, after his mother had been executed by guillotine in Paris. He was appointed an officer in the

Prussian Army The Royal Prussian Army (1701–1919, german: Königlich Preußische Armee) served as the army of the Kingdom of Prussia. It became vital to the development of Brandenburg-Prussia as a European power. The Prussian Army had its roots in the co ...

by special royal decree in 1795 and recognised as noble in the

Kingdom of Prussia The Kingdom of Prussia (german: Königreich Preußen, ) was a German kingdom that constituted the state of Prussia between 1701 and 1918.Marriott, J. A. R., and Charles Grant Robertson. ''The Evolution of Prussia, the Making of an Empire''. Re ...

. After Essen became part of the

, a French satellite state, during the Napoleonic Wars, he was appointed as the city's mayor in 1811, but died two years later.''Essener Persönlichkeiten: biographische Aufsätze zur Essener Verwaltungs- und Kulturgeschichte'', Schmidt-Verlag, Neustadt/Aisch 1986

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