Charles Honoré Berthelot La Villeheurnois (c. 1750,
Toulon
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- 10 July 1799,
Sinnamary,
Guyana
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) was a French politician.
He was
maître des requêtes to
Louis XVI
Louis XVI (''Louis-Auguste''; ; 23 August 175421 January 1793) was the last King of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution. He was referred to as ''Citizen Louis Capet'' during the four months just before he was ...
and with
Charles Brottier and
Thomas Laurent Madeleine Duverne de Presle was one of the heads of the plot called the "camp de Grenelle". Thinking they could count on generals Malo and
Jean-Pierre Ramel
Jean-Pierre Ramel (the younger) (1768 in Cahors – 15 August 1815 in Toulouse) was a French general during the French Revolutionary Wars and the First French Empire. Following the defeat of Napoleon I, he was assassinated by royalists in Toulou ...
, who had crushed the
Conspiracy of Equals, they envisaged taking the troops under their orders (stationed at Grenelle camp), leading them against the
Directors and re-establishing the monarchy. In fact the two generals warned the Directory of the conspirators' approaches and all three conspirators were arrested before they could do anything. Condemned to only a year in prison, Charles Honoré de La Villeheurnois was deported after the
coup d'état
A coup d'état (; French for 'stroke of state'), also known as a coup or overthrow, is a seizure and removal of a government and its powers. Typically, it is an illegal seizure of power by a political faction, politician, cult, rebel group, m ...
of
18 Fructidor
The Coup of 18 Fructidor, Year V (4 September 1797 in the French Republican Calendar), was a seizure of power in France by members of the Directory, the government of the French First Republic, with support from the French military. The coup wa ...
(4 September 1797), and died in Guyana.
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1750s births
1799 deaths
French counter-revolutionaries